Author Archives: Administrator
Entrepreneur decides it’s time to stop crying over spilt milk
An interview with Durban designer Desere Strydom, whose award-winning Clip It jug for milk sachets was born of her desire to continue saving money without the mess and spilt milk. FORGET necessity: frustration is the mother of invention. But it … Continue reading
Do you parley perlemoen?
“ARE you blerrie mad, lady?” fumed the fishmonger, brandishing a massive filleting knife in my direction. “What rock did you jis crawl from unner? Of course I don’t sell perlemoen. You saying I’m a gengster? En I dunno where you … Continue reading
Camping in the Kgalagadi is not for sissies, particularly in mid-winter
IT is completely plausible that the expression, “chilled to the bone” was coined by a shivering soul in a tent during the early hours of a June morning in Africa’s first-established transfrontier park, the Kgalagadi. With the temperature at -14°C, … Continue reading
Overcome the fear of flying
SOCCER legend Dennis Bergkamp has been known to drive thousands of kilometres to honour his sporting commitments. The Dutchman has an irrational fear of flying and does not usually fly to and from the continent for away games. The good … Continue reading
Of moustaches, shaggy sheep, four-legged ostriches and parties waiting to happen in Calvinia
I HAVE never grown a moustache. To be frank, I have never tried to. Neither, I add insistently, have I ever imagined it possible for me to do so. I have however, had occasion to sit opposite moustached members of … Continue reading
Bowled over by Banff
THE most remarkable thing about the Canadian town of Banff, I found, was not its magnificently dramatic location in the Rocky Mountains – it is the highest town in Canada with an elevation of 1 383 metres – the 1 … Continue reading
Interview with Rianie Strydom of Haskell Vineyards
RIANIE STRYDOM is on the top of the world. Not only is she rapidly filling the shelves of the trophy cabinet on the farm but she is also in her element in her role as both winemaker and general manager … Continue reading
21st century style charisma can be learnt
BLUE-chip résumés, MBA degrees and unblemished track records are not always enough to assure promotion and successful job applications. Recruitment specialists agree that executives who lack personal charisma are often overtaken by their more magnetic colleagues on the way up … Continue reading
The pros and cons of headhunting employees
THE practice of ‘poaching’ employees from other companies and matchmaking people with employers can be traced back to fourteenth century Germany. Headhunting in the modern-day corporate jungle however, only showed significant growth in the early 1990s when conventional recruitment methods … Continue reading
The art of the business lunch
RESERVE a lunchtime table any weekday at a place-to-be-seen like Linger Longer in Sandton, The Test Kitchen in Cape Town or Butcher Boys in Umhlanga Rocks and you will see that lunch is a vital cog in the wheel of … Continue reading
Penny Haw 