The Future is Brewing
With tech and automation quickly becoming the norm across industries, AB InBev is buckling down to get the brewing industry on track to meet the demands of the future.
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Making Money Moves
Nicolette Mashile is a South African entrepreneur and media personality on a mission to inspire and educate those around her, especially in the financial sphere. Here she shares her tips for a financially sound 2020.
Nifty Ways To Raise Thrifty Kids
When it comes to raising your little ones to be financially savvy, the key is to communicate, educate and demonstrate positive money habits from the get-go.
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Calendar – April 2020
What's on in April
The Kids Are Alright – Easter 2020
Every year the Beacon Easter Bunny goes on tour to bring Easter egg hunts to cities all over the country, his basket brimming with South Africa’s favourite chocolate coated marshmallow Easter eggs.
Calendar – March 2020
What's on in March
The Kids Are Alright – February 2020
If you and the kids feel more adventurous that day, strap on your takkies and hit one of the various trails for an invigorating hike.
Coastal and Cultural Bliss
Known to be one of the most stable countries in West Africa, Senegal is well worth a visit for its rich and diverse blend of scenery, cultures and heritage. The essence of Senegal is captured best in its capital Dakar – a bustling city on the tip of the Cap-Vert peninsula where African, European and Islamic cultures melt together to form a colourful hub.
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Self-Love
Self-love is a lifelong, dynamic process – and make no mistake, it takes a lot of work. As circumstances change and we face new challenges in life, we learn more about ourselves, and during this process, it is essential to nurture self-love in order to perform optimally.
The 5 Stages of a Social Media Detox. •
You wake up. Before you’ve even rubbed the sleep out of your eyes, you reach for your phone. It’s an involuntary, automatic action by now. You don’t even realise you’re doing it.
It’s probably not a totally unrealistic assumption that the first thing most of us think of when we wake up is our phone. What did we miss? Who got up to what and where during the few hours we were asleep? What current memes will give us a quick giggle? You lie there in the dark and scroll through the eternal flood of
In Your Dreams
Dreaming is a major part of being human. Everybody does it. In fact, people usually dream about four to six times a night, with these dreams generally lasting anywhere between five and 20 minutes. According to psychologist Robert Feldman, the average person will have around 150 000 dreams by the time they’re 70, although most of these (about 95%) are forgotten shortly after a person wakes up. This is why many people claim that they don’t dream at all.
What Your Quarter Life Crisis Is Trying to Tell You. •
Disillusionment. That’s the one word that comes to mind when I consider this chapter of my life. And a feeling of isolation – one that I’ve never experienced on such an intense level before. This was my language to describe something for which I had no frame of reference, until the other day when I was bingeing TED Talks on self-love, loneliness and coping with the monotony of life (it was a particularly gloomy day, I’ll admit) - and evidently I had searched all the right key words to lead me to the term that seems to encompass all of the above. It struck me like a bolt of enlightenment, if you will. This thing I was facing was, in fact, a thing. My misery had company. Other people my age were having the same struggle. They call it the ‘quarter-life crisis’ – a period in your mid- to late 20s that marks the onset of adulthood, and brings you crashing down to a desolate earth.
ABCs of CBD
In the 1940s, CBD was identified and distinguished as an individual chemical property of cannabis, with the initial studies on its effectiveness in treating epilepsy to follow only a few decades later. However, it has been getting a lot of attention recently and is used more openly for its medicinal value, thanks to a growing change in governmental and societal attitudes. In fact, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have noticed that it’s being talked about especially frequently nowadays.
No More Mournful Mornings!
How we can make the most of our mornings and seize the day before it seizes us.
Decisions, Decisions!
It becomes harder for people to make sensible, well-thought-through decisions over an extended period, because our mind starts functioning less efficiently when overexerted.
Know Your Genes
We're products of an intricate web of combinations between our mom’s and dad’s genes. Some of our features are clearly inherited from our mom, and others from our dad, and then we have features that don’t seem to come from either of them, for which the milkman is so frequently (and unfairly) blamed.
Incredible Connection
The body-care field is abuzz with talk of a fundamental element in our anatomy. It’s called the fascia – an almost invisible substance beneath the skin that attaches, stabilises, encloses and separates internal organs and muscles. You may not see it or even know it’s there, but you’d be surprised by how much this gooey layer contributes to our body’s optimal performance.
EQ Equals Well-Being
The cornerstone of emotional intelligence is self-awareness. If you don’t know and understand yourself yet, you will have trouble understanding others and their emotions.
Organising the Chaos
The most important thing to remember about a to-do list is that it’s there to help you stay focused on the bigger picture and on what really matters.
Life in the Express Lane
If there’s one person who knows how difficult it is to juggle a career, family life and fitness, it’s Ewan. His golden nugget of advice to anyone who wants to make fitness a priority in their lives is: ‘Respect yourself enough to realise how important it is to look after yourself mentally and physically. Respect yourself enough to not make excuses.'
The Keto Craze
It seems that every other week there’s a new diet on the market, but you might be surprised to hear that the keto diet actually isn’t new at all. It’s been around for almost a century. We – the general public – just hadn’t known about it until the world (and the Kardashians) cottoned on to the fact that if you follow the keto eating plan, you can drop the kilos. Naturally, it has been trending ever since.
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Sunny Garden Sanctuary
Hello spring! That time of year that, with its crisp air, mild weather that’s neither freezing nor sweltering, blossoming flowers and new leaves sprouting all around us, somehow injects us with a new zest for life. There’s no better time to use that new-found vigour to bring life back into our gardens or outdoor areas at home, before the heat of summer hits and we become lethargic again.
Getting Lit
Since the invention of the light bulb, electric lighting has practically become a fundamental human need and one of those things most of us take for granted, so much so that whenever there’s a power cut, we still find ourselves absentmindedly flicking the light switch – yes, we’ve all done that. But although it has become a basic necessity, the lighting arrangement in your home doesn’t have to be basic.
Liquid Gold
In the 17th century, mescal wine was being produced in and around the town of Tequila. Its popularity grew, and by 1750 an official industry had developed around it. In the 1890s, the drink formally began to be referred to as ‘tequila’. The Cuervo and Sauza families were the first to commercialise and export tequila to the United States in the late 1800s. Today, there are in excess of 100 tequila distilleries in Mexico that make more than 900 brands.
Refuse the Refuse!
The growing awareness of the impact of our self-centred consumer habits on the environment has given birth to a movement based on going entirely waste-free. Obviously, this is just an ideal as waste is an unavoidable consequence of human life – but the main goal here is to at least try to drastically reduce the amount of rubbish we generate by consuming consciously and throwing out as little as possible.
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Queens of the New Normal
Sometimes being boxed in is all you need to think outside of the box – these women can testify to that.
Live Hacks
Fame gives celebs a certain level of influence, and social media offers a way of immediately and directly exercising or imposing that influence on their millions of followers. Not only are hackers aware of this, but so are celebs.
Faith To Be Reckoned With
As a white Afrikaans woman from the town of Knysna in the Western Cape, Karien Barnard, aka Kay Faith, is not what you’d expect when you hear ‘hip hop producer’.
Trailblaze That!
Featuring Balini Naidoo, Mathew Kieser and Aqeelah Sasman.