Table of Contents Affinity Health, a leading provider of high-quality health cover, is encouraging families to improve their handwashing habits this Global Handwashing Day (15 October). Handwashing may seem like a small everyday task, but it is one of the simplest ways to help prevent illness. Our hands touch taps, phones, door handles, money, shared desks, shopping trolleys, pets, food, and many other surfaces throughout the day. Germs can then enter the body when we touch our eyes, nose, or … [Read more...] about Are You Washing Your Hands Properly?
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Are You Washing Your Hands Properly?
Table of Contents Affinity Health, a leading provider of high-quality health cover, is encouraging families to improve their handwashing habits this Global Handwashing Day (15 October). Handwashing may seem like a small everyday task, but it is one of the simplest ways to help prevent illness. Our hands touch taps, phones, door handles, money, shared desks, shopping trolleys, pets, food, and many other surfaces throughout the day. Germs can then enter the body when we touch our eyes, nose, or … [Read more...] about Are You Washing Your Hands Properly?
Unica Plastics Preps Patio, Pool and Café Seating for Summer
Summer seating season is about to begin across Gauteng, and Unica Plastics is getting ready for it. The Pretoria West manufacturer, which has made injection moulded plastic products since 1998, is putting a selection of chairs and stools from its catalogue forward for patios, lawns, pool decks, café pavements and the outdoor spaces of restaurants, guesthouses and lodges. Each piece is made to handle sun, rain and heavy use through the year’s busiest months outdoors. The announcement comes … [Read more...] about Unica Plastics Preps Patio, Pool and Café Seating for Summer
Coffee Journal Launches Community Wall and Bean Giveaway for South African Brewers
MEYERTON, Gauteng, South Africa — Coffee Journal, an independent South African specialty coffee publication, has opened a community wall that invites local coffee drinkers to publish their brewing setups, favourite roasters and café reviews, and has attached a bean giveaway to the first entries. The page, titled South Africa’s coffee people, lets members list the machine or brewer they use, the method they brew with, the beans they keep returning to and their city, alongside a photograph of … [Read more...] about Coffee Journal Launches Community Wall and Bean Giveaway for South African Brewers
Coffee Journal Launches Community Wall and Bean Giveaway for South African Brewers
MEYERTON, Gauteng, South Africa — Coffee Journal, an independent South African specialty coffee publication, has opened a community wall that invites local coffee drinkers to publish their brewing setups, favourite roasters and café reviews, and has attached a bean giveaway to the first entries. The page, titled South Africa’s coffee people, lets members list the machine or brewer they use, the method they brew with, the beans they keep returning to and their city, alongside a photograph of … [Read more...] about Coffee Journal Launches Community Wall and Bean Giveaway for South African Brewers
Designer Pool Covers Highlights Energy Savings From Covered Pools
JOHANNESBURG, Gauteng, South Africa — Designer Pool Covers, a South African supplier and installer of pool covers, is drawing attention to the running costs that a covered pool avoids, arguing that heat retention and reduced evaporation make a cover one of the more cost-effective investments a pool owner can make. An uncovered pool loses heat from its surface, drives up chemical and filtration demand and accelerates water loss through evaporation. The company states that a well-fitted cover can … [Read more...] about Designer Pool Covers Highlights Energy Savings From Covered Pools
Rode & Associates Values Hospitality, Game Reserves
Spring has arrived in South Africa, and with the summer holidays on the horizon the country’s lodges, hotels, guest houses and game reserves are gearing up for their busiest trading months. Against that backdrop, Sandton-based Rode & Associates is highlighting the valuation and advisory work it carries out for the hospitality and eco-tourism sector. The practice delivers independent, certified valuations for both market and insurance purposes, and pairs that core function with a range … [Read more...] about Rode & Associates Values Hospitality, Game Reserves
Balwin Properties: Izinga Eco-Estate Umhlanga Dates
Buyers eyeing a home at Izinga Eco-Estate in Umhlanga now have firm timing to work with, after Balwin Properties released estimated occupation dates for the apartments that remain unsold, with the first keys set to change hands at the end of November 2026. The schedule lets anyone considering a move to the KwaZulu-Natal coast match a unit to their own timeline and know roughly when they could move in. Coming as spring gets going and the December break draws near, the news matters for anyone who … [Read more...] about Balwin Properties: Izinga Eco-Estate Umhlanga Dates
Blue Falcon Estate Offers Germiston Families Outdoor Space for Summer
October tends to be a planning month for Gauteng households. With summer on the doorstep, parents are weighing up where their children will be enrolled come January, keeping a closer eye on the budget, and asking whether their current place still suits daily life. Urban Estate, a manager of affordable rental apartments in Johannesburg and Germiston, is encouraging households in exactly that situation to take a look at Blue Falcon Estate at 21 Malherbe Road in Albemarle, where three-bedroom … [Read more...] about Blue Falcon Estate Offers Germiston Families Outdoor Space for Summer
Dreyer Linen Readies Festive Tablecloths and Towels
Spring is deepening across South Africa, and for the country’s hotels, lodges, guest houses and conference venues that shift in the calendar signals the approach of their heaviest trading period. Year-end functions, the wedding season and the December holidays land almost on top of one another, often within the space of a few weeks. With that crunch in view, Dreyer Linen is urging hospitality operators to sort out their table, bed and bath linen now, well ahead of the frantic run-in to the … [Read more...] about Dreyer Linen Readies Festive Tablecloths and Towels
Loan on Cars Stays Open Seven Days a Week This October
A financial emergency has no respect for the calendar. The geyser that bursts, the hospital account nobody saw coming, the stretch where a small business is owed money it has not yet received, these can all arrive on a quiet Sunday just as readily as on any working day. This October, Loan On Cars, a South African provider of cash loans secured against fully settled vehicles, wants drivers to know that its doors are open every day of the week, from 9am to 5pm, Monday right through to Sunday. What … [Read more...] about Loan on Cars Stays Open Seven Days a Week This October
Freeman House Recovery Brings Addiction Care Outdoors
Spring has returned to the Magaliesberg, and with it the longer evenings, milder mornings and freshly green hillsides that mark the turn of the season around Hartbeespoort. At Freeman House Recovery, that shift underlines a principle the centre has woven into its programme for years: healing is not confined to the four walls of a therapy room. This private inpatient addiction treatment facility pairs medically supervised detox and evidence based therapy with horses, hiking, game drives, art, … [Read more...] about Freeman House Recovery Brings Addiction Care Outdoors
Kaelo Destinations Spotlights Private Safari & Beach Homes
Ask most families and friend groups in October and the year end trip has shifted from a vague idea into a confirmed reservation. Kaelo Destinations, the collection behind Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana and Pambele Beach House in Mozambique, is leaning into that booking season to spotlight a particular corner of its portfolio: exclusive-use homes where a single group keeps the property, the guide and the rhythm of each day entirely to itself. The collection does cater to solo travellers and … [Read more...] about Kaelo Destinations Spotlights Private Safari & Beach Homes
The Gold Avenue Explains How Carat Shapes a Gold Jewellery Offer
Spring cleaning season has arrived across many South African homes this October, and with it comes a steady stream of sellers walking into The Gold Avenue, the Illovo, Sandton buyer of gold, diamonds, luxury watches and Krugerrands. The firm says most of these visitors turn up holding a jumble of pieces spanning different eras, countries and jewellers, rarely aware that two chains of matching weight can fetch wildly different sums. To clear up the confusion, the company is explaining one of the … [Read more...] about The Gold Avenue Explains How Carat Shapes a Gold Jewellery Offer
Mashatu Highlights October’s Waterhole Sightings Before the Botswana Rains
Few stretches of the year test the Northern Tuli Game Reserve like its final weeks of drought, and Mashatu is encouraging travellers to look closely at them. October marks the tail end of the dry season before the summer rains break, when temperatures climb steadily, water grows scarce and animals cluster around the handful of spots where they can still drink. The private reserve in eastern Botswana says that visitors willing to tolerate the heat are rewarded with tightly concentrated, close-up … [Read more...] about Mashatu Highlights October’s Waterhole Sightings Before the Botswana Rains
