Cape Town Produced Sauvignon Blanc Named Best In The World
A Sauvignon Blanc produced by Cape Town’s iconic wine Estate, Groot Constantia, has just been named as the best in the world. These awards are a wonderful accolade for South Africa’s oldest wine farm which was established in 1685 and has been producing wine uninterrupted since then. The 2020 vintage of Groot Constantia’s Sauvignon Blanc […]
Muchi Matters Expands Content Empire & Kyle Deustch To Drop Summer Soundtrack
Episode two of Smirnoff Game Nights hits the South African pop-culture sweet spot this week with guests including multi-talented singer Kyle Deutsch and Youtube vlogger and writer, Muchi Matters, in a test of will and bragging rights. Last week, hip-hop legend, Slikour, lost said bragging rights to the successful and trendsetting lifestyle content creator, Thandolwethu […]
Open Call For African Startups Addressing Access To Energy, Agriculture, Mobility Issues
The search is on for Sub-Saharan African startups with tech solutions aimed at impacting positively lower-income communities through those industries. Seedstars and Shell Foundation have joined forces to look for sustainable, scalable and innovative startups addressing universal access to energy-related challenges, as well as sustainable agriculture, mobility and transportation. With support from the UK Foreign, […]
Black Friday’s Slow Start
Midnight spending declines 63%, but total 24-hour volumes up 14% The impact of lockdown and COVID-19 was evident as Black Friday sales got off to a disappointing start with total spend down 63% and trading volumes plummeting 33%, by comparison to last year, in the first minute after the clock struck midnight. Slow to wake up Unlike last year where South Africa experienced a shopping frenzy in the period between midnight […]
“My Body” – 16 Days Song That Can Save A Life – Lira, Goodluck, Mariechan And Gigi Lamayne
A familiar song produced in 1983 and taught in schools around the world as part of a sexual abuse prevention programme, has been given a reboot to raise funds to fight the second pandemic – women abuse in South Africa. ‘My body’ samples a song by educational psychologist Peter Alsop, and teaches themes such as consent and boundaries. The new […]
Growing Resilient Food Systems Post Covid Is Key For Africa
By Mavis Mavis Owureku-Asare When it comes to food security, the challenge is not always about producing more – it’s also about quality: producing food that is wholesome and preserved safely. About 690 million people go hungry each year. The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to add between 83-132 million people to this number based on socio-economic factors. Even before the pandemic, about half […]
Maputo Spreads Christmas Cheer and Awareness
A six-metre-tall Christmas tree made from 3,000 plastic bottles has been unveiled outside a hospital in Mozambique’s capital, Maputo. Environmentalists say they used the bottles to encourage recycling, while the tree had been put in front of the Maputo Central Hospital’s emergency ward to thank staff for providing health care to patients, especially those infected […]
Upgrading One of Africa’s Busiest Land Border Crossings
Unfazed by the prospect of a prolonged economic downturn, Harith General Partners and Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund have taken a stake in a $296m project to upgrade Zimbabwe’s Beitbridge border with SA. Harith is an infrastructure-focused private equity fund manager that was formed over a decade ago and counts Absa and Old Mutual among its […]
Engaging Women as Active Participants in Africa’s Energy Transition
Zambian startup WidEnergy, a woman-led for-profit social enterprise dedicated to female empowerment and the expansion of affordable energy access, has raised a new round of funding to help scale its impact. WidEnergy, the name of which is an acronym for “Women in Development,” reflecting the startup’s goal of leverages a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model to provide […]
The Controversial Mauritian Route to Investing in India
The wife of the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is a shareholder in a restaurants business that funnelled investments through a letterbox company in the tax haven of Mauritius, in a structure that could allow its backers to avoid taxes in India. The business, International Market Management (IMM), is hoping to build a chain of dozens of […]
