Human Rights Month is celebrated in March focusing especially on Human Rights Day (21 March) in South Africa. Usually a public holiday, this year it’s on a Saturday, which means we don’t have a holiday. However, the upside to it is that we can still celebrate the establishment of the South...
As you might already know, 2020 is a leap year, but how do leap years exist and why do we need them? A common year (a year that is not a leap year), has 365 days whereas a leap year has 366 days with the extra day designated as 29 February. A leap year (also […]
We’ve made it through the festive season, through January (or Januworry as most South Africans call it), and now we’re in February. This is the month to reflect and align future spending with your financial goals for 2020. Life is becoming increasingly expensive, and most of us try to find ways...
Holiday seasons give us the freedom to let down our guard for a bit and forget about self-discipline for a while. Now that we’re back from letting loose, it’s time to get back into shape. This requires a lot of attention, focus and determination. It’s your choice on choosing how you’ll be doing...
Mind, Body, and Soul: Let the new decade be part of a new you. A lot of people have forgotten this isn’t just the mark of the end of the year. But also, a decade defined by innovation in technology, the rise of smart devices, streaming services that changed the way we listen to music […]
Back to School: Let’s get it done with time to spare (and cash too!) It might still be holidays, but that doesn’t mean resting on your laurels. Especially not when it comes to being organised for your kids’ schooling needs! That’s why we’re talking about Back to School this early. Why? Well,...
Use a Zero-based Budget for surviving on your six-week-long stretch. What’s great about December? Everything! What’s great about January? Nothing! Especially the seven-week (give or take) stretch before your next paycheck. That’s because most people get their paycheck for December early, and...
World Aids Day: In Remembrance. And Hope. Aids has devastated millions upon millions of lives since it first emerged sometime in the late 1970s, though it was only first really noticed in the early ‘80s. Initially, it only seemed to be affecting gay men (mainly in the US). As the political...
Movember & Men’s Health: It’s Time for the Moustache. From Eddie Murphy to Salvador Dali and Martin Luther King to Freddy Mercury, moustaches have often been a gentleman’s signature. And now they’ve come to represent men’s health issues. Movember is that all-important unofficially named...
HALLOWEEN Over the last couple of years, the spooky ‘holiday’ as seen a rise in popularity in South Africa. Why it has taken this long to really become a thing we don’t know. What we do know is that we love any excuse to dress up and eat ridiculous amounts of sweet-stuff, and Halloween seems...