Database of 30 million+ South Africans leaked online, property group is culprit

[Ilse Burger] NEWSWATCH: After a database of more than 30 million South Africans had been leaked online, including estimated incomes‚ addresses, and cellphone numbers, one of the country's top real estate companies has admitted to being the unwitting source...

#EntrepreneurMonth: Chris Weylandt on the business of contemporary home decor design

[Lauren Hartzenberg] Chris Weylandt, founder and CEO of furniture and decor retailer Weylandts, forms part of the impressive line-up at this year's Business of Design conference...

#BODJHB: A disconnect between business and purpose

[Jessica Tennant] Trevyn McGowan, co-founder of Business of Design and the Guild Group, opened day one of Business of Design in Johannesburg this morning, reflecting on the past year, which has been an extraordinary year for them with new ventures and a massive amount of hiring in a short space of time...

Quaffing oysters and bubbly in Hillcrest quarry

[Leigh Andrews] Cape Town locals and quite a few out-of-towners donned their boldest white-and-gold outfits and braved the wind this weekend to attend the Oyster and Champagne Festival at Hillcrest Quarry...

Five quality Korean cars

[Ané Theron] As life in SA becomes more and more expensive, these five quality Korean cars are worthy of your attention, if you're thinking of foregoing the expensive German luxury brands...

A cabinet reshuffle equals a nuclear deal

[Nicci Botha] President Jacob Zuma's latest cabinet reshuffle is nothing more that a thinly-veiled smokescreen to get his crony, David Mahlobo into the energy portfolio...

Dion Chang on doing business in a hyper-visual era

[Juanita Pienaar] BSH Home Appliances Group invited trends-expert, Dion Chang from Flux Trends to host an event where he shed light on the art of communicating and doing business in a hyper-visual era...

#EntrepreneurMonth: If you can sell your first startup, sell it

[Alan Knott-Craig] Us humans have a heuristic bias to sell our winners and hold onto our losers. That's not the way to build wealth. Better to hang onto your winners and cut your losers loose...

#EntrepreneurMonth: Discovering young designers with the SAFW New Talent Search

[Ruth Cooper] South African Fashion Week (SAFW) will be showcasing 53 2018 autumn/winter collections at the Sandton City Rooftop in Johannesburg on 24 October 2017.

Education in South Africa - improving the system with art

[Robin Fredericks] The month-long exhibitions, titled Vanguard: A month where math meets art, was created with the aim to connect ideation, dialogue and collaboration between education and the arts and includes...

Flight Centre Foundation looks to tackle poverty through education

[Sindy Peters] The Flight Centre Foundation aims to break the cycle of poverty through education, running a number of relevant programmes...

#OrchidsandOnions: A road traffic ad, which is... fine. And a soap one, which needs a clean-up

[Brendan Seery] I know this is going to sound like a self-indulgent “house ad” but I must say that, since I have been working here at The Citizen, I have come to respect the newspaper's independence and the fact that it really has not been “captured” by anyone politically...

Poor hurt most by e-tolls and petrol price hikes increasing property value

[David de Waal] The high cost of petrol does not only diminish consumer bank balances but also influences where people choose to buy a home...

Foreign land ownership not a major issue

[David de Waal] The motives behind Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti's comments regarding foreign land ownership in South Africa are unclear as South Africa currently does not have a problem with foreign buyers crowding out local buyers.

Will the Brexit conundrum really affect your property investments?

[David de Waal] Despite an initial rush of concern about the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union, the impact on South Africa's property market may turn out to be marginal...