Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Joburg – the road is our runway

11-03-12 | 1831 | Lifestyle

Mercedes-Benz has established itself as an experienced partner of major international fashion platforms and is now actively involved in the fashion world of South Africa. As title sponsor of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Joburg, the brand joins the fashion capitals of the world, such as Berlin, New York, Paris, Milan and London.

A host of top South African designers, coupled with emerging young talent, will take to the runway, showcasing their latest designs to eagerly awaiting fashionistas, at the trendy and stunning Roof Top at Hyde Park Centre, Rosebank.

State Healthcare – My Public Hospital Experience

07-03-12 | 1210 | Lifestyle

Groote Schuur Hospital

Public healthcare in our country – where do I start? The very idea of it is synonymous with news reports of patients left to suffer in hospital passages, insufficient facilities and poor medical advice. Last week I booked into my first public hospital, and got to experience what it’s all about, first hand. This is how it went down.

Healthcare in South Africa is a conundrum. The rich can afford medical aid, so can the people living beyond their means every month, but for a typical twenty-something year old who isn’t taking home 30k a month, and whose parents aren’t swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck, what is the answer?

Brewer &Union Puma Present Real Music Wednesday

07-03-12 | 1301 | Entertainment

Brewers & Union and PUMA present REAL MUSIC WEDNESDAY in Cape Town kicking off on Wednesday, 7 March 2012. Back by popular demand, the sportlifestyle brand has once again teamed up with uber-cool Cape Town beer salon &Union, as well as Rolling Stone magazine, to bring another round of great South African music to the public.

The Cape Town series will run for 40 weeks, with one live act every Wednesday night at &Union. The REAL MUSIC WEDNESDAY experience that PUMA, Rolling Stone magazine and & Union have created, serves to foster SA music and gives artists the opportunity to play for audiences in a relaxed, social space.

Northern Sotho Wikipedia now an official project

05-03-12 | 1250 | Lifestyle

Northern Sotho now has it’s own Wikipedia, becoming the 10th official South African language to do so.

The project has been sitting for many years in the Incubator, where projects that aren’t yet ready are hosted and developed. It was a bit of an anomaly, as even though it was more active than many other South African languages, an official project was never initiated, and the rules later changed, tightening up the qualification criteria. This may have been to its advantage, as with the modest goal of getting the project out of the incubator, there has been more activity,

Minimalism - inbox and stuff

05-03-12 | 1143 | Lifestyle

I am a slave to email. It is my communication medium of choice for both receiving and sending. Unlike a phone call, email less unintrusive because I can read it when I'm not busy with something else (yes, I can ignore my phone, but I don't during the day). It is also a format I can keep as a reference or to mull over. And, unlike a phone call, it is there in black and white, not in-one-side-and-out-the-other like phone calls.

I'm compulsive about email and so I read 'em all and I answer 'em all. I especially like to answer all of the day's emails before I go to bed because if I don't, they disappear under the new day's messages.

DRUM magazine now best-selling black magazine in South Africa

04-03-12 | 1131 | Lifestyle

The latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) for the last quarter of 2011 have just come in and DRUM is on top! With its circulation now ahead of its closest competitors, it is now officially the biggest-selling magazine aimed at the black market in South Africa and the third largest magazine in South Africa after Huisgenoot and YOU. DRUM’s circulation rose by 7% in total, jumping from 129 317 in 2010, to 138 479 at the end of 2011.