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....
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Black Crown launches Heritage Month Collaboration with Designer Palesa Mokubung
South Africa’s latest ready-to-drink Gin and Tonic brand, Black Crown G&T has partnered with Designer Palesa Mokubong as part of their Heritage campaign called #OwnYourCrown. The campaign is in celebration of the country’s rich and diverse heritage and will see the designer work with kings and queens from mixed heritage households to document their stories...
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Noma Yini: The Mentality You Need Before You Start Any Business
INTRODUCTION Before there are spreadsheets, seminars, incubators, ‘please find attached within’, paradigm shifts’, and ‘disruptive ideas’, There is ‘the streets’, ‘the corner’, ‘the hood’ or ‘ikasi.’ The streets have a wealth of knowledge found in books, this information is making rounds in some of the world’s leading universities. The only difference is the language used....
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The Present Future of The Logistics Industry
Hello there, Welcome to issue #18. This week Uber launched their UberConnect service, which allows individuals the ability to send packages between each other. Droppa dubbed the ‘Uber for bakkies’ launched a full-service courier offering in conjunction with their same-day relocation service. Finally, The Courier Guy launched a smart locker service app called PUDO (which means Pick Up, Drop...
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Why Everything That’s Supposed To Be Bad Makes Me Feel So Good
A few weeks ago, a friend asked me to write something on letting go. ‘Sure thing,’ I said without hesitation. After all, letting go sounds like an easy enough topic, right? I mean, I know all about letting go. All I have to do is throw a few funny stories, an analogy or two, and...
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Marvin Store. What is PayFlex? Buy Now. Pay Later.
Pay for your Marvin order in four interest-free, zero-fee payments over six weeks and get your order shipped right away! No fees, no interest, and no catch. Your payment installments will be deducted from your card every two weeks. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO APPLY? SOUTH AFRICA ISSUED DEBIT OR CREDIT CARD SOUTH AFRICAN ID NUMBER 18+...
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What About e-Commerce in South Africa?
2020 has been an excellent year for both Shopify & Amazon, well the whole e-commerce platform movement (Magento, Big-commerce, Woo-commerce, Ecwid, etc.). Still, undoubtedly Amazon is the Goliath & Shopify sells swords to a bunch of Davids. The analogy fits the two. Both platforms have had magnitudes of success for various reasons. Amazon has been...
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What to Expect this September on Netflix 2020
The flowers aren’t the only thing in bloom this September. This month on Netflix we have a bouquet of content coming your way. Ryan Murphy’s highly anticipated Ratched is a suspenseful drama series that tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched. The series stars Sarah Paulson as Mildred Ratched and Cynthia Nixon as...
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Man up! Breakdown of Masculine & Feminine
So telling a male to man up is at most useless. The only way you can get him to man up is to stop mothering him/being the man. If he WANTS to be a MAN he will step up to the Masculine role