August is the month in which all of South Africa not only recognises the many economic, political and social achievements of our country’s exceptional women, but we also celebrate their many strengths, talents and abilities.
"You can write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise." – Maya Angelou.
This is the powerful philosophy by which Venete Klein has lived her life and forged a highly successful career in the male-dominated world of finance.
You only realise how much you need a spa treatment once you lie back after a massage. This is when you truly appreciate just how good it feels to abandon yourself into the hands of a trained therapist.
South Africa’s wine making history dates back to 1659 when the first glass of locally produced wine was poured. It was only seven years after Jan van Riebeeck first set foot in Table Bay.
Statistics show that nearly half of all women over the age of fifty will develop osteoporosis. It should, however, not be inevitable that the ageing process includes shrinking, becoming hunched over, suffering bone fractures, or needing a hip replacement.
Women around the world have, at one time or another, taken a stand against the second class citizen status that societies have imposed on them for centuries. South African women were, and are, no different.
The onslaught of spam mail includes 419 scams that trick victims into advancing money in the hope of realising far greater amounts, while fake emails relating to stealing personal information, called phishing, have multiplied to such a degree that SA is now the third most victimised country after the United Kingdom and United States, according to the SA Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric).
