‘IN TOUCH’ is an intimate photographic essay around our growing need for human affection & connection. For being in touch with our people, including ourselves. It portrays human contact as the new luxury good of the era. South Africans with different backgrounds and relationships were invited to the studio and expressed the essence of the...
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HUAWEI Music Celebrates African Excellence with Fresh African Artist Showcase
African excellence in music is a topical subject at the moment, globally. Prominent musicians and record labels are key opinion leaders driving this global conversation. Africans can be extremely proud of the caliber of musicians coming from the continent, with several home-grown talents releasing smash hits and making waves internationally. In this vein, HUAWEI MUSIC Africa...
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Joe Human. Being in Lockdown Really Exposed How, as Humans, We Thrive in Connecting.
I’m a sole believer in people constantly reaching different levels of consciousness. This year might have further affirmed this belief. We got to be lonely but not alone. We came to face our thoughts, fears, visions and demons. A lot of us used social media as a coping mechanism. Being in lockdown really exposed how,...
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IN TOUCH Photographic Series: Felipe Mazibuko
‘IN TOUCH’ is an intimate photographic essay around our growing need for human affection & connection. For being in touch with our people, including ourselves. It portrays human contact as the new luxury good of the era. South Africans with different backgrounds and relationships were invited to the studio and expressed the essence of the...
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The Reality of Ghosting. Really gentlemen? Do we really deserve to be ghosted?
As I sit here writing this I am a mixture of numb and angry. Two weeks ago my boyfriend of one year ghosted me. For five long days,
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The Mentality You Need Before You Start Any Business is a Business Strategy
Nomayini: The Mentality You Need Before You Start Any Business is a business strategy and self-help book written for young black men between the ages of 16 at 35, predominantly from the townships with an entrepreneurial mindset or aspire to develop one. ‘Nomayini’ means ‘anything’ in IsiZulu language. The term is slang used pervasively in...
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Episode 09: How We Lost The Black Man
How did we as black men get to such a state of brokeness? How did we end up being such a terrifying threat to the lives of black women? Is it possible to retrace our history from a spiritual point of view to figure out what actually went wrong? In this episode Gogo Aubrey Matshiqi...
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What to Expect this October 2020 on Netflix
The Haunting of Bly Manor – Netflix Original Series 10/9/2020 From The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan and producer Trevor Macy comes The Haunting Of Bly Manor, the next highly-anticipated chapter of The Haunting anthology series, set in 1980s England. After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas) hires a young...
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Cue The Festive Cheer As Netflix Announces An African Original Holiday Special
Hot off the heels of their widely watched film Seriously Single – which had audiences in stitches, Netflix announces that the Ramaphakela siblings will return this Festive Season with their trademark humour on a new 3-episode-series, How To Ruin Christmas: The Wedding. Nothing makes a quintessential South African romantic comedy pop quite like a story...
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Venture Scale: A History Lesson On How Discovery Health Grew From 0 to R2.8 Billion In 7 years
Most South Africans know Discovery for its health insurance business connected to the wellness programme, Vitality. Those 2 businesses are the catalyst for what the company is today & were founded in the first 7 years of the business — the venture years. The story of Discovery is an anecdote of a true Venture Scale business....