As you will likely know if you already signed up, Wonkie held a draw for all eligible email subscribers on Monday, 31 October 2011. It was our largest prize yet – a 16MB iPad… quite a way up from our initial media player, t-shirt and Wonkie pen awards when we first started off three years back! As an added bonus for subscribers, we also gave away 2 media players and 3 Wonkie pens for the runners up!

The winners have already been notified, and we will update this post as soon as we receive their permission to publish their names.

Wonkie would also like to take this opportunity to update readers on progress – to date, Wonkie has captured over 13,000 confirmed, opt-in subscribers (and another 6,000 unconfirmed ones!) Wonkie’s presence on facebook has also been steadily growing over the last year and now Wonkie now has over 5,000 facebook fans.

As always, Wonkie is most grateful for your support and thanks you! To recognise some of Wonkie’s top contributors (Peace, Mzu, a-maize-ingly-corny, Garth, Piedpyper, Madoba, Rio and a few more come immediately to mind) Wonkie is planning to give out some special awards – stay tuned to this post for updates!

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Be sure to sign up to Wonkie’s email subscription to be eligible for the latest iPad draw, photo caption challenges and other online competitions. Do invite your friends to join the fun!

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This year has certainly flown by and a lot has been going on with Wonkie staff all over the world. For starters, it was great to receive the Best Political blog in South Africa award for 2010 at the SA Blog Awards. It was even more satisfying for Wonkie that the email and feed subscribers increased to over a whopping 11,300 last month. Add that to the 4,200+ fans on facebook and that makes for quite a huge following for a blog. So thank you all for reading and commenting – Wonkie appreciates it!

Now Wonkie has received some feedback and a few suggestions for topics which should be covered going forward. Before Wonkie makes any changes though, it would be great if you would please let us know your thoughts by completing the quick poll below:

On another positive note, the winning caption entry for the last bird-eat-bird photo caption challenge is Lindani who gets a Wonkie T-Shirt! You can see the caption challenge and the winning entry by clicking the link below:

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Friday, 17th September was the last day to vote for Wonkie in the 2010 South African blog awards – for those of you who did, Wonkie would like to extend a warm, appreciative thank you. [Updated: 26 Sep 2010] Your vote certainly did count and helped Wonkie walk away with the best political blog in South Africa award for 2010.

As a general update, Wonkie has just reached over 11,000 email subscribers now and is still growing strongly – thanks again for your support!

NB: The next draw for the media player for all email subsribers is at the end of October so stay tuned!

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Wonkie CartOOns has been nominated in a couple of categories in the 2010 South Africa blog awards including the most controversial blog and best political blog. The final phase of the awards is based on a public vote and Wonkie hopes that you will provide your support by following the simple steps below.

1. Please click on the link below – it will open a new window with the SA Blog award categories. The entries for Wonkie will be pre-selected in the relevant categories.

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2. Enter your email address and the requested code at the bottom of the page and click the submit button.

3. When you receive the confirmation email, please click on the link in that email to confirm your vote (please check your junk mail folder in case the SA Blog awards email gets sent there!)

4. You can vote once every 24 hours so if you can, please do show your support… we would really appreciate it heaps! The voting ends on 17 Sep 2010.

Thanks!

The Wonkie CartOOns team

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