Ten tips to keep it alive and green through El Niño. JOHANNESBURG: Worried about keeping your garden looking lush and lively during El Niño? Don’t be. A few simple steps are all it takes to make sure it stays beautiful and full of life. With Garden Day on Sunday, 18 October, now’s the perfect time…

Table of Contents Johannesburg: College Africa Group | Executive Question of the Week Every month, finance departments across South Africa face a familiar challenge. They must collect, reconcile, check, and present financial information to management. Deadlines approach, spreadsheets multiply, and experienced finance professionals spend valuable hours preparing reports. By the time the reports are completed, there…

Table of Contents South Africa’s automotive retail sector is changing rapidly, with advances in artificial intelligence, growing access to data and evolving customer expectations transforming how dealerships attract buyers, manage stock and make business decisions.Against this backdrop, AutoTrader will bring the dealer community together for Dealer Connect 2026, the most anticipated automotive event of the…

The GRAMMY Award-winning R&B star embraces creative freedom on his new 15-track album before taking the stage at Once Upon A Time in Joburg on 5 December 2026. Featuring Leon Thomas, Pusha T, Muni Long, The Paradox, and Akeem Ali, and with production from longtime collaborator D’Mile and an all-star roster of producers, ALOUD! is…

JOHANNESBURG – BankBrokers, an independent merchant-services advisory based in Sandton, has launched Instant Pay Check, a new service that helps South African small businesses and informal traders decide how they should take payments as instant and phone-based options move into the mainstream. For most of the last decade a small business owner had two real…

JOHANNESBURG: PROVENANCE, a new theatre work by Fak’ugesi Writer in Residence Ashraf Johaardien, had its first public development reading on Thursday 15 October, 12:00 to 13:30, at the IBM Lab, Tshimologong, as part of the Fak’ugesi African Digital & Innovation Festival 2026. Listed on the programme as Provenance + AI-Curious, the session was directed and…

Table of Contents Affinity Health, a leading provider of high-quality health cover, says World Osteoporosis Day (20 October) is an important reminder that bones can become weak without causing any early pain or obvious symptoms. Osteoporosis is a condition that causes bones to lose strength and break more easily. It is often called a “silent…

Table of Contents This October, Acepak is turning attention to its pouch filling machines. The family-owned Cape Town company builds end-of-line packaging machines and turnkey systems, and every pouch filler it sells is designed, engineered, assembled and tested at its South African head office. The timing suits producers in food, beverage, dairy and personal care,…

Table of Contents Before a Krugerrand ever reaches a buyer’s counter, many South African sellers have already shortchanged themselves on paper, and The Gold Avenue wants that to stop. The Illovo company, which buys gold, diamonds, luxury watches and Krugerrands, is using October to highlight a common miscalculation. A large number of Krugerrand holders estimate…

Table of Contents October is the month to get SANS1657 bottled water testing done, according to H2O Guru. The SANAS-accredited water testing laboratory works with clients throughout South Africa and is urging water bottlers, refill stations and businesses that sell purified water to book now. Spring is in full swing and summer is on its…

Millions of South Africans still struggle to access consistent, quality primary healthcare. Language barriers, distance from facilities and a shortage of trained health workers are just a few of the factors impacting the standard of care. Tshikululu Social Investments and Dr Sophia AI are addressing this gap through a new partnership to advance health equity…

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…