DRAFT MEDIA RELEASE                                                                         24 January 2001 

WOTSNEWS WINS TOP WEBSITES TRIBUTE 

www.wotsnews.co.za has been chosen as one of the top 19 entertainment Websites created and maintained in South Africa. 

This accolade comes from www.19b.com , the Directory of Best South African Websites and comes hard on the heels of a similar listing as No.1 out of a possible 238 sites (under the keywords ‘events calendar’) on www.ananzi.co.za - one of this country’s most respected search engines. 

Under the word ‘events’, wotsnews is listed number fifth out of a possible 26 497 similar sites and under the word ‘calendar’, is listed third out of a possible 3664 similar sites. 

Similarly, under the word ‘entertainment’, wotsnews heads ananzi’s shortlist of six sites against the likes of Ster Kinekor, Computicket, 5fm and Musica. 

This is a considerable achievement, considering the fact that most Websites struggle to ever get listed in the top thirty on any search engine. 

Originated and managed by well established Cape Town based Rosemary Hare Public Relations, the wotsnews site provides an exciting, ever changing up-to-the-minute calendar of a vast variety of cultural, sports and special interest happenings and events, countrywide and beyond. 

Hot buttons on the site offer easy access to past, present and future events by the day, week or month, with additional value via a unique  - and very popular - section reviewing the ‘Top Ten Coolest Events of the Weekend’, such as restaurant, theatre, book, movie and nightclub reviews, de-stressing activities and more. 

“This is essentially a lifestyle Website,” says originator Rosemary Hare. “We’ve gone all-out to build an active, focused reference point that offers more than the most up-to-the-minute happenings and events calendar covering southern Africa. 

“www.wotsnews.co.za is a valuable one-stop source of a huge variety of cultural, sporting, educational, hobby and business events information. We effectively afford a proactive interface between events organisers and the world outside, as well as a lively and informative shop window for people who want to keep informed, or are looking for something to do,” said Rosemary. 

“The work we’ve done justifies the very welcome www.19b.com and ananzi listings, but the real accolades come continually from the many, many thousands of people who access our site daily”  

The site commonly draws widespread interest and compliments from web surfers as far afield as Canada, France, Italy, India, Hong Kong, Australasia and beyond. 

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