The tender voice belonged to 20 month old Naledi, a daughter to one of the men and her sudden intervention, as she advance towards her father, had the welcome effect of breaking a rather serious train of thought in the discussion the duo was immersed in. The gathered crowd swooned in gobsmacked reaction. Up until […]
Among them, they brag an experience spanning some 11 years in the hair grooming industry among their exuberant, uniformly black-clad selves, sprightly as they became the latest occupants of Soweto’s much coveted address, Vilakazi Street when Old Mutual, Nedbank and Izingwe enabled them to dream big through the rather swish opening of their ME salon […]
The largest private healthcare operator in community townships, The Clinix Health Group, will soon break ground in Soweto with its seventh hospital, the first phase of which is expected to be completed and operational by 2019. This will boost the Group’s footprint to include 1 700 beds around South Africa. The new hospital will bear the […]
How many times have I heard that statement – and always from people who see sport as something sacrosanct and hallowed . . . and therefore “off limits” for political influences. However, an undeniable fact of life is that as soon as any group of people are denied their basic human rights, they will seize […]
At precisely 12h30pm, in the parking lot of Soweto’s Maponya Mall in Klipspruit, official Guinness World Records adjudicator, Paulina Sapinska, flown in from London and cutting a resplendent figure in a brand blazer whilst clutching some folder containing some report of sorts, and whilst surrounded by a blue-coloured tide of 250 Clover employees who included […]
The beverage brand was in town to treat fans and visitors to a one day experience which entailed the viewing of the familiar, golden sculpted masterpiece; contestation in FIFA 18 gaming; personal interaction with former Bafana Bafana skipper, Lucas Radebe and an appearance by local hip-hop’s exponent-of-the-moment, Cassper Nyovest – inter alia! Nyovest- actual name […]
The book accounts the story of the role the Detainees’ Parents Support Committee performed in the anti-Apartheid struggle then. Families of every hue and age imaginable, comrades long last seen and fellow Struggle activists such as Gauteng Finance MEC, Barbara Creecy, businesswoman, Daphne Mashile-Nkosi, Black Sash exponent, Audrey Coleman and husband, Max, UDF co-founder, Jomo […]
The Mandeni-raised radio celebrity was speaking his mind upon being asked what love meant to him, at a Cadbury P.S. promotion inside a Maponya Mall, a hive of activity with Saturday shoppers. During the month of love and just a week before the much vaunted St Valentine’s Day – the, The Best Drive presenter thereafter […]
The Antalyaspor of Turkey’s ball artist joined five other fellow ambassadors in the persons of Tanzania’s Ivo Kapunda, Zambia’s Christopher Katongo, Zimbabwe’s Tinashe Nengomasha, Swaziland’s Siza Dlamini and Lesotho’s Lehlohonolo Seema, at a high profile media launch at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg. Accompanied by his easy-on-the-eye Cote D’Ivore wife, Georgette and interpreter, Alassane Ndour, […]
Yet the tie had literally commenced with a bang [two, to be precise] from stunt grenades lobbed in and outside the serene and manicured grounds of the Irene Country Club, from a standoff between anti-Israel protesters from the Palestinian Solidarity Alliance and a joint show of force comprising the SAPS and a private security company. […]