The eye-watering amounts of money involved in football these days has inevitably shifted the game into new territory, with many football stars seeming to struggle to split their focus between the job they’re paid to do on the field, and the commercial opportunities outside it. With an entire career able to be decided by one vicious tackle or defined by […]
Former Test Kitchen sommelier Tinashe Nyamudoka is on a mission to make wines that everyone can connect with. Multi-awarded sommelier Tinashe Nyamudoka used the COVID-19 pandemic to make a fresh start, departing his role as Head Sommelier at The Test Kitchen and making the move to Johannesburg to focus on his own wine label, Kumusha. His formidable career in the […]
At its most basic, eating is a function essential to preserving life – and at its most extravagant, it’s a celebration of ingenuity, endeavour and even art. When humans come together, we dance, dine or sing – whether in celebration, worship or protest. Eating is one of humanity’s great communal, social activities and the option to gather at restaurants to […]
Social media has offered unprecedented opportunities for brands to generate ‘free’ marketing opportunities on platforms that allow for incredibly specific targeting. Franchises are a special marketing case, in that the reputational buck stops with the parent brand, while it’s the individual franchisee that’s usually public-facing – and therefore carrying the brand reputation, without carrying an accompanying proportion of the risk. […]
While the franchising system in South Africa continues to perform strongly in the face of a tricky economy with record unemployment levels, there’s also an increasing appetite for local brands to look beyond the country’s borders in the search for additional revenue. According to the Franchise Association of South Africa’s (FASA) 2018 Franchise Market Report, there are 865 franchise systems […]
A background in accounting and an aptitude for systems have placed Adrian van der Merwe and his company, North Wind Digital, at forefront of shaping the finance function of the future. As society and industry try to come to grips with the ramifications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), van der Merwe, CTO Grant Hesse and their team have combined […]
Modimolle-born artist Nelson Makamo has come a long way since he started exhibiting his work at local shows around Limpopo. He joined the Artist Proof Studio in 2003 and via a bursaries from Johnson & Johnson International and Pinpoint One, opened his first solo exhibition at the Obert Contemporary Art Gallery in Johannesburg in 2005. Since then, his work has […]
“Before you put music out there, you have to love it – and then hopefully the fans will. There has to be an emotional connection or it won’t touch people,” says Mi Casa trumpeter Mo-T. “There’s a whole lot of love connection attached to music”. That emotional connection to music is part of his DNA, rooted in the work of […]
“I’ve come to detest the word ‘innovation’ because people throw it around without knowing what it really means,” says Singularity University Founding Executive Director Salim Ismail. “Anything really innovative is really disruptive. If its’ not, it’s incremental – that’s just improvement. Disruption radically changes the game”. Disruption is something Ismail has a deep knowledge of, as Singularity University was established […]
Marc Maingard lifts a thin piece of wood to his right ear and taps it with the middle finger of his left hand. Once… Twice… He’s been smiling since the first tap, but I only hear it on the third. A musical note reverberates across his workshop, audible above the waves crashing onto Scarborough beach, a few hundred metres away. […]
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