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A song, a book and a dish: Tim Modise

By Nomali Cele Tim Modise grew up in Garankua in the 1960s and ‘70s. He attended Fort Hare University and ...
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#SidebarwithSindi unpacks what Lobolo money is used for in 2019

By Zuko Komisa Lobolo plays a very significant role in the marriages of many South African cultures. This long-standing tradition ...
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Avon Justine iThemba Walkathon Competition

Stand a chance to win a hamper and four additional tickets for your friends. All you have to do is ...
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WHATS WRONG WITH GROOVIN EPISODE 2

In the second episode of WHATS WRONG WITH GROOVIN, curated by DJ Kenzhero and Tha_Muzik, we commemorated the revolutionary spirits ...
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Using indigenous African organic super foods as part of your diet

By Zuko Komisa Dr Tracy Nelwamondo (MBBCh), who is a Health Coach and an advocates for indigenous ingredients as part ...
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Eskort Just Delicious bread-based recipes

Rise to the occasion! Only one team can claim the cup but luckily, these #JustDelicious bread-based recipes are made for ...
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GALLERY: 2019 Kaya Legacy Walk / Run

The 2019 edition of the Legacy Walk / Run held at Mushroom Park in Sandton on the 12th of October ...
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The New Premium Audi A1

By Melinda Ferguson Disappointed that she missed the national launch of the Audi A1, Melinda Ferguson made sure she got ...
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Basetsana Kumalo on finally writing her book

By Nomali Cele To Basetsana Kumalo, there has never been a question that she would one day immortalise her epic ...
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The Old Mutual Music in the Gardens

The Old Mutual Music in the Gardens series has contributed immensely to the rise in popularity of outdoor music venues ...
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Events

The Old Mutual Music in the Gardens

The Old Mutual Music in the Gardens series has contributed immensely to the rise in popularity of outdoor music venues ...
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Toni Braxton As Long As I Live SA Tour

No stranger to South Africa, seven time Grammy award winning RnB songstress Toni Braxton will be touring South Africa on ...
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Ithemba Walkathon, Avon Justine

Show your support for breast cancer awareness by joining the crusade against breast cancer held on Sunday, 20 October at ...
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Kaya Legacy Walk / Run 6.7KM – 2019

Entries are now open for the Kaya Legacy Walk / Run. 2018 marked the centenary of the birth of Nelson ...
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Family

#SidebarwithSindi unpacks what Lobolo money is used for in 2019

By Zuko Komisa Lobolo plays a very significant role in the marriages of many South African cultures. This long-standing tradition ...
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Peppa Pig’s big day out

By: Natasha Archary The talkative, inquisitive little pig every child loves and every parent hates re-runs off is in ...
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Love, Marriage & Children in the midst of Xenophobia

By Zuko Komisa In the midst of the Xenophobic attacks happening around the country, Sidebar With Sindi Van Zyl spoke ...
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Parenting wellness: Take a night off

By: Natasha Archary Moms and dads need a social life. To stay sane. To find inner tranquility in order ...
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AfroDaddy Terrence Mentor on his fatherhood 101 platform

By Zuko Komisa Dad of two boys, Liam (aka “The Kid”) and Eli (aka “Boy2.0”), Terrence Mentor had a conversation ...
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The Law Report unpacks the reported 2132 Fake Marriages

By Zuko Komisa The Law Report with Micheal Motsoeneng-Bill recently had a conversation about the reports of over 2 000 ...
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Conscious parenting and how it’s defining children today

By: Natasha Archary In our previous post, on the effects your parenting style has on your child, we touched on ...
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The effects your parenting style has on your child

By: Natasha Archary When it comes to parenting and our ability to raise our children, every parent has their own ...
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Understanding Laws governing family homes

By Zuko Komisa One of the most common disputes that many South Africa families have to resolve is that of ...
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Understanding Legal Aid and how to access it

By Zuko Komisa Micheal Motsoeneng-Bill recently interrogated whether or not Legal Aid is an inferior product for those who can't ...
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Politics

Mashaba survives another motion of no confidence

By Katlego Legodi City of Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba has survived another attempt by the African National Congress to remove ...
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Why new South African law won’t end the toxic mix of money and politics

Cyril Ramaphosa led the African National Congress to victory in May. A new law on political funding covers parties, not ...
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The South African government’s thinking on surveillance law is regressive

By: Jane Duncan, University of Johannesburg The constitutionality of South Africa’s surveillance law is being challenged in court. shutterstock A ...
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Ramaphosa saves the ANC’s bacon. But this could be its last chance

By: Richard Calland, University of Cape Town Cyril Ramaphosa has led South Africa’s African National Congress to its sixth electoral ...
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‘Smaller parties’ dispute the elections claiming IEC is corrupt

By Zuko Komisa On Thursday during the counting of the 2019 Elctions Results tensions rose at the IEC Results Operation ...
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South Africa’s poll is more about battles in the ANC than between political parties

By: Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg Former president of South Africa Jacob Zuma and current president Cyril Ramaphosa are supported ...
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With just days to the 2019 ballot, Khaya Sithole urges us to remember

Twenty-five years later – the memories of what we used to be and who we wish to be shall converge ...
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The TRC Series 4/5 – The cost of reconciliation is not amnesia or impunity

By Tunicia Jegels In this episode of the TRC Series, we fast-forward to Present-day South Africa where the ongoing court case ...
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2019 Elections – Blom Blom with Mbuyiseni Ndlozi

In the lead up to the elections Good on Kaya FM with Skhumba Hlophe and Ndumiso Ngcobo decided to invite ...
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David O’Sullivan Shares Memories Of the 1994 Election

By David O'Sullivan This past week, I was trawling through an old filing cabinet crammed with yellowing documents, dusty boxes ...
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Kaya Voices

Fees Must Fall victims need to stand up, organise and unite

By Sithembiso KaShandu Now that the dust has settled, we need to ask ourselves if there will be any justice ...
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Navigating different identities in a Pseudo-Pan-African society

By Boniswa Matiwane “You are what your father is,” they say. The premise of your identity will always be traced ...
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Fear in the lives of young women

By Kgaogelo Makgoba Another shooting. Another rape. Another day of shock, and another cascade of insecurities, frustration and fear. I ...
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Bafana Bafana deserve to be called Mabena

By Admire Maluleke The phrase Mabena came after a video from military training with someone called Mabena faulting each task ...
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Which is better, value or work experience?

By Tokelo Maleme We can all attest to there being certain job positions that we believe we could have filled ...
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7 things your daughter-in-law wished you knew

By: Natasha Archary The mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship is one that is often met with equal frustration from both women and ...
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Social (media) activism. What is it really doing for anyone? #HumanRightsDay

By: Natasha Archary Beyond the public holiday, what does Human Rights Day mean to South Africans today? Or is ...
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OPINION: On cookies for people speaking on behalf of the systematically oppressed

By Nomali Cele This week, South African pop musician Danny K was a trending topic online. Most users quipped that ...
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The side effects and risks of all things artificially beautiful

By: Natasha Archary What are you willing to pay to look and feel your best? Many women will tell ...
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An encounter with President Nelson Mandela

By David O’Sullivan 29 years ago I had my first encounter with Nelson Mandela. I was the News Editor at ...
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Lifestyle

GALLERY: 2019 Kaya Legacy Walk / Run

The 2019 edition of the Legacy Walk / Run held at Mushroom Park in Sandton on the 12th of October ...
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Spring walkathon checklist

By Nomali Cele The weather has gotten so much better in the few weeks spring has been here. The birds ...
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Fire and Feast Meat & Food Festival

By Juliet Joseph For generations of South Africans, braaiing is more than just cooking meat on a fire or in ...
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Dr. T: A Guide to Sexual Health & Pleasure

By Litha Hermanus Sex is both a want and a need. When you figure out which one it is for ...
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Unpacking the Blesser-Blessee Phenomenon with Jackie Phamotse & Alfie Phokobye

By Zuko Komisa The terms Blesser-Blessee gained prominence in the early 2000’s as a description for an intergenerational and transactional ...
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Are you even a wine rack person?

By Nomali Cele There are two kinds of wine people. People who collect and display their good taste in wine ...
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Online Shopping in South Africa 101

By Nomali Cele Online shopping in South Africa has been on an upward trajectory for almost a decade. More and ...
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Young, Black, and Gifted Chef Ndash on South African Foods with a twist

By Zuko Komisa Sithembiso Ndashe, the founder of Ndash Foods, a proudly South African food business that prides itself in ...
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Ten things you’ve been doing wrong your whole life

By: Natasha Archary You ever feel like adulting is just one big joke set by the universe to make ...
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Debunking Bipolar: Beating The Stigma Together

By Zuko Komisa In South Africa, Bipolar Disorder affects up to 1% of the population, which sounds like a low ...
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Tech

Spring Clean Your Gadgets

By Nomali Cele September brings with it the desire for newness. Most people will then clean up the messes they ...
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What is Namola? The App Says You Will Get Help Fast

By Nomali Cele Given the renewed conversation around femicide, gender-based violence and cases of girls and women going missing, another ...
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Arthur Goldstuck on the challenges facing 5G’s rollout in South Africa

By Zuko Komisa There is a major race happening between the USA and China who are both working on their ...
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Facebook announces its cryptocurrency Libra

By Motlagae Konyana Facebook’s plans to launch its own cryptocurrency could change the game for Bitcoin, ETH, XRP, Litecoin, and ...
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Google revokes Android access from Huawei

By Motlagae Konyana Huawei has lost access to Google’s software Android. Google suspended business with Huawei after the U.S government ...
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How South African digital users behave online

By Nomali Cele We are Social, in collaboration with Hootsuite, have released the 2018 state of the digital landscape and ...
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Fake news: Seeing is believing, or not

By Tunicia Phillips There’s a new trendy hashtag on twitter and it’s flipping the lid on the ever-evolving war on ...
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Icasa regulation a “Data must fall” win for the consumer

By Nomali Cele “Data Must Fall” is a phrase that has been on most South Africans’ lips in the past ...
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Make your phone do new things with these Android apps

By Zuko Komisa Getting the right apps on your phone can make your life so much easier! You operate ...
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Technologies of the future that are a lot closer than you think

By Zuko Komisa Technology has drastically evolved that everyday new technology is being developed and shared with the world. The ...
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Travel

Climbing the Fushimi Inari Shrine (伏見稲荷大社) , in Kyoto

By David O'Sullivan The morning was spent at the Fushimi Inari Shrine, which is dedicated to the Shinto god of ...
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Traveling through Kyoto to Nagoya, the Springbok’s base

By David O'Sullivan The KayaFM team refused to say “sayonara” to Tokyo because that’s got too much of a ring ...
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A Tourism Film Festival is coming to the Northern Cape

By Nomali Cele Video is considered one of the best ways to communicate destinations and research has found that when ...
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A Guide to Tokyo, Japan

By: Ntombenhle Shezi It is this combination of traditional and futuristic elements that make a city like Tokyo a surreal ...
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Exploring the cultural aspects of Japan in Meiji Shrine in Shibuya

By David O'Sullivan For the Kaya FM team in Tokyo for the Rugby World Cup, today was a day for ...
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Read up on our first #KayaBusinessTravel trip to Rwanda

By Zuko Komisa Kaya Business Travel in partnership with MaZo Connect Invited Entrepreneurs to Rwanda for a Business Exploration Trip ...
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Kaya Business Travel – Rwanda Business Exploration

Kaya Business Travel in partnership with MaZo Connect is Inviting Entrepreneurs to Rwanda for a Business Exploration Trip. We would ...
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#YoungGiftedAndBlack Founder & MD Bheki Dube on running Curiocity Backpackers

By Zuko Komisa Founder & MD Bheki Dube was recently featured on Breakfast with David. Dube started Curiocity Backpackers in ...
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David O’Sullivan in conversation with Hector Pieterson’s sister Antoinette Sithole

David O’Sullivan On Wednesday last week, in preparation for my breakfast show on Kaya FM tomorrow morning during which we ...
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Honest Travel Experience is re-introducing the inner-city experience

By Zuko Komisa There are winds of change happening at the Windybrow Arts Centre, we spoke to Frank Leya the ...
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Finance

What to keep in mind when working with family

By Nomali Cele Working with family is difficult but for some people, it’s the one way they are able to ...
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National wills week 2019

By Nomali Cele This is your chance to draft your will, free of charge! National Wills Weeks sees a number ...
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How unemployment affects relationships

By Nomali Cele When a person loses their job, it fundamentally changes their relationships. Even those with the most supportive ...
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Women in Property: Zamantungwa Khumalo on Kaya Bizz

By Nomali Cele Property ownership is an aspirational aspect of the economy for most South Africans, owing to economic disenfranchisement ...
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Kaya FM FNBBWB in pictures

Kaya FM in partnership with FNB hosted a Business Women’s Breakfast on 8 August 2019, the eve of National Women’s ...
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Ideas on Starting and Maintaining A Business in 2019

By Zuko Komisa Statistics show that youth unemployment in South Africa is a “national crisis”; and a big focus at President ...
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Tips: Help your credit score to improve

By Scelo Hlophe We all do aspire to have an improved credit score for many different reasons. Part of the ...
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Nedbank Homeloans 101

Are you thinking about buying a home? It can be quite an intricate process! To find out all you need ...
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Best cities to rent in South Africa according to Adzuna

By Nomali Cele Afropolitans across South Africa are constantly working to improve their lives. This happens through looking for better ...
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Money Conversations: Financial Truths I wish I knew before

By: Scelo Hlophe Have you ever considered that some of the decisions we make are motivated by what other people ...
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Health & Wellness

My Pregnancy Journey App for Africa’s women

By Zuko Komisa It is estimated that over a million babies are born in South Africa alone, an insight that ...
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Winter moisturisation cheatsheet

By Nomali Cele Winter brings with it skincare concerns that are unique to the season. From dryness to flaky skin, ...
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MENTAL HEALTH: What does self-care look like?

By Motlagae Konyana With the pressures that we face in our society today, many people struggle to take care of ...
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Why it’s hard to stop Ebola spreading — between people and across borders

By: Janusz Paweska, National Institute for Communicable Diseases An Ebola treatment centre in North Kivu where the outbreak’s epicentre is ...
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What to know when you are donating blood

By Motlagae Konyana Donating blood is very important and it is a life-saving act for a lot of people who ...
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Motoring

The New Premium Audi A1

By Melinda Ferguson Disappointed that she missed the national launch of the Audi A1, Melinda Ferguson made sure she got ...
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The Hierarchy of Maserati

By Melinda Ferguson For a day Melinda Ferguson got to experience the full-throttle of the new Maserati Levante 350, attracting ...
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Porsche perfection – The 2019 Macan

By: Melinda Ferguson The premium compact sport SUV segment has got a whole lot posher with the arrival of the ...
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Ntlhe Mahlatsi is one of the youngest names in SA Motor Journalism #YoungGiftedBlack

By: Natasha Archary One of the freshest voices to come out of campus radio station, UJFM 95.4, Ntlhe Mahlatsi ...
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Spinning Queen Stacey-lee May and her need for speed

By Zuko Komisa Spinning Queen Stacey-lee May recently joined The Drive Thru to share her love for car spinning, being ...
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Sports

Fan Celebrations at this year’s Rugby World Cup

By Zuko Komisa The mood is electric at this year's Rugby World Cup with patriotic fans in high spirits cheering ...
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Kaya FM’s Busiswe Mokwena wins Sports Journalist of The Year

By Zuko Komisa Kaya FM's Busiswe Mokwena was recently awarded Sports Journalist Of The Year at this year's Gauteng Sports ...
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Springbok hit speedbump but fans stay behind them

By Mosibodi Whitehead. So far as the overall experience goes, little could have prepared me for my Japanese Odyssey. After ...
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Tripped on first hurdle, but abundant adventures ahead

By David O'Sullivan It’s the morning after the big Rugby World Cup match between South Africa and New Zealand. The ...
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David O’Sullivan takes us through his first day in Japan

By David O'Sullivan For my first blog post about the KayaFM trip to Japan, I was anticipating telling Afropolitans about ...
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Investing in high-quality stocks: What investors should know

Every investor prizes a high quality company that delivers steady and predictable growth. But how ...
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Gallagher Convention Centre

Gallagher Convention Centre is the premier events venue in Gauteng. Established in 1993, Gallagher is ...
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World Cup Quarter-Finals Analysis by Ex-Bafana star Matthew Booth

Tavarishi (Comrades)... ...the quarter-finals are upon us! Here is my prognosis. Uruguay vs France: Edison ...
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Viva l’Afrique! – Matthew Booth

Zhdrastvyite fytbolni fanatu (Hello football fans) I had asked a week ago if normality at ...
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