Year end message from the Bruinou.com team

Bruinou.com had a very eventful year, considering we started the site again on 5 April this year after a long leave of absence to strategise and plan. The Bruinou.com interview on Channel O went extremely well (if we do say so ourselves). The groups who performed were exceptional and represented to the max! We received an interesting mail specifically from a Malawian Bruinou who says that he can clearly relate to what we are talking about. He managed to check the whole Channel-O interview while he was in Nigeria, so it’s good to know our message of community self-reliance is spreading. With all the Bruinous on Channel-O recently, we’re wondering if they’re gonna change the name to Channel-bruin-Ou 🙂

For those who were unable to catch the Channel-O and the East Coast Radio interviews, fear not, Bruinou.com in conjunction with a premier film company will be shooting the concert in Durban on Saturday 10th as part of our upcoming documentary which will endeavour to take a snapshot of contemporary South African society as seen through the eyes of Coloured people. The documentary will be broadcast on Channel O in the new year, and possibly other broadcasters as well. A DVD will be made of this as well and we will include many DVD extras like the Channel-O and ECR interviews, artist performances, behind-the-scenes footage and an in-depth discussion with the team behind Bruinou.com.

The Channel O interview has opened up doors now as we have people contacting us from all parts of South Africa enquiring how they can be promoted as well. Bruinou.com has now appeared on East Coast Radio, Hype Magazine and Channel O and you can be assured that we will be trying our utmost to increase our media exposure so that we can move away from the traditional stereotypes of Coloured people and bring ourselves from out of society’s shadows where we currently seem to lurk.

We would like to send a huge thanks to the Channel O, O-Boma team, specifically to Producer and Assistant Director Bhokani Moyo and presenters Grace and Laura. They were magnificent and we would like to thank them for their efforts, not just for Bruinou.com but for Coloured people in the country in general. This has certainly opened the door for Coloured people and has paved the way for a heapful of media publicity that we will bno doubt be capitalising on. Trevor Williams at East Coast Radio; Simone Harris from Hype Magazine have all been incredibly supportive of this whole initiative and people like this are a real asset to our efforts at promoting our people and our emerging culture.

To everybody that visits Bruinou.com, forwards our emails and promotes our initiatives, we thank you. Your support is the lifeblood that keeps Bruinou.com alive.

So what does the future hold for your favourite website? The new year is looking exceptionally promising and we have so much in the pipeline, starting with an upgrade to the server to increase load capacity and performance. Also, our online shop will be going live early next year, so you have no excuse not to be kitted out in the hottest, most relevant fashion items in SA. We end this year on a very high note, with the highly talked about concert at Tilt on December 10th. This will be followed by an incredible year end party at Infinity Night Club, Van Riebeeck Rd, Edenvale, JHB. Thank you for all the support and we look forward to seeing you at Infinity.

Warm regards,
The Bruinou.com Team