Table of Contents Did our great grandparents view the invention of the telephone with the same trepidation that we view AI with today? Imagine if a present day click bait author was tasked to write about the telephone? I think it may go something like this: Forget Everything You Know About Communication: Why Alexander Graham…

Good music, good moves and good food at Clearwater Mall this October Clearwater Mall is turning up the volume this October with an evening of live music and a Saturday morning fitness mash-up that comes with a well-earned breakfast. There’s plenty happening in the Piazza at Clearwater Mall this weekend, with two events giving visitors…

Lexpro Systems explains how payment requisition software lets South African law firms split capture, approval and execution across three roles, keeping controls tight while payments keep moving. CENTURION, South Africa — Lexpro Systems has published Splitting Payment Duties Without Slowing Legal Firms Down, a guide to dividing payment work across a firm’s team so that…

Flowers and jewellery have shared a wedding day for as long as there have been brides. The bouquet goes down the aisle, the ring goes on the finger, and both end up in the same photographs. In September 2026, two South African makers put them side by side on purpose, in the Winelands. Floral designer…

Ask any South African family what happens in October and many will say the same thing: the December holiday stops being an idea and becomes a plan. Leave gets approved, campsite bookings open and someone eventually asks where everyone is going to sleep once the car is packed. Johannesburg outfitter Cloud Camper, which sells rooftop…

Table of Contents School fees, December getaways and festive shopping all arrive in the last quarter of the year, and Zero Debt wants South African households to check their finances now, before those costs pile up. The debt counselling company, which is registered with the National Credit Regulator (NCR), has four free online calculators on…

Families hoping to settle into a new Paarl home before the long summer break have a fresh reason to look at Drakenzicht, the luxury estate Legaro Property Development has built on Lustigan Road. Released in PAARL in October 2026, as spring in the Cape Winelands gives way to summer, this announcement highlights the family-focused design…

Table of Contents Women across Gauteng who find themselves facing an unplanned pregnancy are being urged by Top Care Womens Clinic not to put off getting advice. The private reproductive health provider, which runs branches in Randfontein, Alberton and Dube in Soweto, points out that October opens the final quarter of the year, a time…

I watched a disturbing Instadoc on Netflix last night titled AI Gone Wild. The documentary examines the swarm attack on Hugging Face by reconstructing the Hugging Face breach and examining what autonomous agents’ coordinated actions mean for AI safety. Most Disturbing Quote One quote in the entire documentary struck me as highly worrying. Reference was…

What if you could be busy living, yet still miss your life? That question sits at the heart of space between breaths, the debut book by Cape Town-born writer Justin P Van Tonder. A lived journey into presence, the book arrives this November for readers who recognise the rush towards the next meeting, the next…

JOHANNESBURG: Of 86 of South Africa’s 245 operating mines, 35%, are at least 25 km in a straight line from the nearest hospital confirmed as open 24 hours, according to a new analysis of every operating mine in the country. 13 mines are at least 50 km away, and the most remote, the Alexander Bay…

Table of Contents Four Balwin Properties estates in Pretoria East are getting closer to their finished state. New roads, reservoirs and two shopping centres are all moving towards completion around them. This October, Balwin wants buyers to look past the floor plan at the everyday basics: how residents will travel in and out, where their…

South African platforms that want to put payments under their own name now have a ready-made route. This October, Stellenbosch-based Pay@, which has handled bill payments for South African billers since 2007, is putting the spotlight on Yap, its white-label Platform-as-a-Service. With Yap, software providers, business networks and service platforms can add payment requests, invoicing,…

Table of Contents Midrand: South African electronic security and fleet technology company DigitFMS has launched the Digit D-Micro7, which it describes as South Africa’s smallest tracking device. Small enough to rest on a R5 coin, the wired Bluetooth unit measures approximately 21 mm long, 9.5 mm wide and 4 mm thick. It is designed to…

With South Africa’s year-end season of conferences, awards and launches getting under way in October, Mann Made Media is inviting brands and agencies to book its Sandton production campus for hybrid broadcasts, virtual events and studio shoots in the last quarter of 2026. The Johannesburg-based brand experience agency, which has produced events and content since…

Once winter is over, South African homeowners tend to start on the jobs they have been putting off. They repaint walls, update kitchens and redo bathrooms. Whether those projects look finished often depends on the hardware, and especially on whether the finishes stay consistent from one room to the next. This October, Decor Handles is…

GQEBERHA, South Africa: Ant problems in Gqeberha start picking up from spring and normally get much worse as we move into summer, especially after the first rains. An analysis of anonymised True Clean pest control records found that 89% of ant-related invoices were issued between October and April, with 68% falling between December and March.…

Ahead of the year’s peak trading months, the forklift supplier with branches in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town offers a clear framework for choosing between rental, a used machine and a brand-new purchase Johannesburg, South Africa: Rising stock levels, bigger order books and forklifts that are about to be pushed harder than at any other…