Grant Wood - 11 August 2011
Photo courtesy Cape Town Craig
South Africans can now vote for Table Mountain to become one of the New7Wonders of Nature with the online mobile messenger platform, MXit, which has an estimated 37-million registered accounts in the country.
In order to vote, follow these five easy steps:
- Download MXit to your mobile phone (http://m.mxit.com)
- Go to ‘Tradepost’
- Access ‘MXit Cares’ or 'MXit Reach' (certain operating systems such as Blackberry and Android show this option instead)
- Click on ‘My Culture’
- Add ‘vote4tablemountain’ as a contact (it will appear under your 'active' tab, as well as your 'Apps' tab)
Once you have added it as a contact, you will need to purchase 'Moola'. To do this:
- Access 'Wallet' and follow the instructions to purchase a specific amount (1 Moola = 1c)
- One vote costs just 20 Moola (20c)
Once this is done, you can vote as many times as you like. With only a few months left until the final seven are announced, all South Africans and visitors are urged to vote for our flat-topped wonder.
“We are delighted to team up with MXit to offer another voting platform that is much simpler than voting online and, at 20 Moola (20c), much more accessible to the youth than voting by SMS,” says New7Wonders campaign manager, Fiona Furey. “We believe this will give the campaign an incredible boost and significantly increase its chance of making it into the final seven.”
Table Mountain is one of 28 natural sites around the globe competing to be one of the New7Wonders of Nature, a contest that aims to raise awareness of the incredible variety and beauty of nature around us.
Juan du Toit, executive head of business development and marketing at MXit says, “We are a true South African product and are privileged to be part of this exciting campaign. The public can access this voting service free of charge, and start supporting Table Mountain now.”
Please take a few seconds from your day and use those well-trained texting fingers (and thumb) to cast your vote and help to solidify Table Mountain in the history books.
To vote for Table Mountain visit http://www.votefortablemountain.com or SMS “Table” to 34874. SMSs cost R2 each and voters can vote as often as they like.
