Atlehang Ramathesele

Your Neighbouhood Digital • 4th August 2025

Backroom boom - Your Neighbouhood Digital

The township property market is very much alive with keen interest in everything from residential to commercial real estate. Investing in backrooms is especially popular and lucrative as a first step on the property ladder








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ownships have a specific vibrancy about them – its effervescent lifestyle and culture create a hub for community, lively subcultures, food, art, family and music.
While township...

CIO South Africa • 6th August 2024

Boardroom notes: women executives share key insights for excelling in the C-suite · CIO South Africa

The 9th Annual Executive Women’s Dinner fireside chat reinforced the importance of fairness in the hiring process, maintaining principles, and doing what’s right, even when no one is looking.At a recent Women’s Dinner fireside chat, participants explored the myriad challenges women face at the C-suite level, alongside strategies for uplifting each other. Central to the discussion was understanding what it means to harness the seismic power of leadership and cultivate the next generation of women...

Your Neighbouhood Digital • 4th August 2025

Buying new? - Your Neighbouhood Digital

While some people opt to build their homes, it can be quite an administration-intensive process with unforeseen costs and delays. This is why others are opting to buy off plan, whether it is for a free-standing home or a unit in a complex, because you can enjoy the flexibility and savings with less of the administrative headaches.
In a nutshell, when you buy a plot‑and-plan in a new development, you can make a selection from something that’s at least in the realm of what you want, but don’t hav...

Homefront • 4th August 2025

Changing the game - Homefront

Enjoying a successful year, including 15 active developments currently for sale and a few more in the pipeline due to launch later this year – Craft Homes offers a vast range of developments, their most common being two to four-bedroom duplex homes in sectional title properties in a range of great areas at affordable prices. These turnkey property developers have been making a tremendous impact and this is largely due to keeping a close eye on the market. Jessica Cabanita, Marketing Manager for...

5th August 2025

Common Clean Beauty Terms Explained | Clicks

Beauty consumers are becoming more conscious of how their skincare products and cosmetics are made. 

According to beauty editor Lauren Nicoll, the clean beauty movement centres around conscious consumerism. Part of this is becoming more aware of the ingredients used to create your beauty favourites, so that consumers can be better informed about what they are putting on and in their bodies. 

Clean beauty brands tend to contain ingredients that are less harmful to people as well as the environm...

CIO South Africa • 27th September 2022

Cybersecurity: be the hunter not the prey · CIO South Africa

With remote working, an increase in ransomware attacks and the general uptick in digital transformation, cybersecurity is at the forefront of the tech conversation worldwide – and South Africa is no exception.

According to Monique Hart, lead Solutions Engineer, Security SME at VMware SSA, South Africa has become a target of cybercrime due to law enforcement agencies being ill-equipped to detect and thwart it. This, coupled with underreporting of cybercrimes and companies not having the financ...

Your Neighbouhood Digital • 4th August 2025

Going, going… gone online! - Your Neighbouhood Digital

It may be a common misconception that auctions focus solely on foreclosures and are largely about commercial property, but they actually serve a much broader purpose and more consumers are actively participating. More homebuyers, who have already become used to searching for potential properties digitally, are finding that online property auctions are a safe and easy way to make a purchase.
Online auctions in particular offer a myriad of benefits for buyers. “You can bid anywhere, anytime, anyh...

Everything Property • 9th July 2021

How has the pandemic affected building bonds?

Everything Property takes a look at how the pandemic has affected building bonds in South Africa.
WORDS: ATLEHANG RAMATHESELE – PHOTOS: UNSPLASH AND ISTOCK
The global pandemic and the aftermath of the varying lockdowns continues to shake up bond movement in SA in a myriad ways. With improved affordability for consumers across a range of economic brackets and brighter prospects for new entrants to the market, bond application and transaction volumes are up while the appetite of first-time buyers...

CHRO South Africa • 9th June 2023

Part 1 - The genius of the generation gap · CHRO South Africa

In part one of this article, a closer look at how as the digital era advances, older and younger generations collaborate, fostering multi-layered mentorship in the workplace.The benefit, dynamism and diversity of thought that encompasses a multi-generational workforce has resulted in more organisations embracing the concept. Many HR departments are therefore making a concerted effort to create age diverse teams and this is naturally fostering cross-generational mentorship and collaboration - res...

TimesLIVE • 8th November 2020

The apron is now an emblem of female empowerment thanks to the Monorap

The humble apron has gone through multiple phases over the years. Historically worn by a wide range of people including homemakers, tradespeople, fishmongers and the like, it has been everything from a practical kitchen item to a status symbol.Closer to home, I sometimes associate it with a loosely tied voorskoot that I watched my aunties and grandmothers don to mass-cater a family event. Images of nimble hands peeling carrots in bulk in a garage or a billowing cloud of scone flour swirling off...

5th August 2025

The benefits of diluted apple cider vinegar for your hair | Clicks

As consumers grow increasingly concerned with what goes into their hair and beauty products, many are reaching for more natural products from their pantries. If you want to maintain bouncy and beautiful curls, or give your natural hair some extra love and sheen, apple cider vinegar (ACV) is a nifty staple to keep on your bathroom counter.

Made from fermented, crushed apples and added bacteria, apple cider vinegar is an acetic acid. The active compound in it, coupled with “mother”, the name of a...

TimesLIVE • 27th December 2020

The Leonardo in Sandton will thrill art lovers with its incredible collection

I've always felt intimidated by people who have an appreciation for art. In between the murmurs of fancy jargon about brushstrokes and the uncanny ability to interpret the nuances of meaning within a blob of colour on a canvas — I've avoided it deliberately, content with being the layman I am.It was only until recently when I went on an art tour at The Leonardo that I realised how beautiful and accessible art could be.Already boasting the accolade for "tallest building in Africa", the newly erec...

Your Neighbourhood • 16th November 2021

The rise of green living continue to take centre stage

As green living, building and design continue to take centre stage, eco estates and sustainable developments are becoming increasingly popular

WORDS: ATLEHANG RAMATHESELE
While the appetite for estate living is on a steady incline as people crave heightened security and a sense of community, the demand for green living in eco estates in particular is growing. This is partly due to rising environmental consciousness among homeowners and property investors. In a nutshell, eco developments encompa...

CHRO South Africa • 2nd November 2023

The rise of the greats sparks transformation in the workplace · CHRO South Africa

The post-Covid landscape has changed the world of work significantly, as companies adapt to the Great Resignation, Great Reawakening, Great Reshuffle and Great Unretirement. It’s all the more prudent for HR strategies to evolve and adjust to The Greats.
The world of work has undergone a staggering transformation in the last three years. The advent, survival and aftermath of the global pandemic has encouraged people to examine their prospects more and duly changed everything for employers and em...

SowetanLIVE • 15th September 2022

Tourism entrepreneurs slowly getting back on their feet

Tourism is a major contributor to South Africa’s GDP because this sector creates jobs and showcases the country to thousands of tourists throughout the year.The tourism sector is finally on recovery mode and entrepreneurs are eager to get back on track.Emmah Makutu and Ncebakazi Mkabane are tourism business owners that are happy their businesses survived lockdown restrictions.These two-woman entrepreneurs are ready to offer world class services to tourists. Makatu and Mkabane have businesses roo...

CFO South Africa • 7th August 2024

Women of the future on how to innovate to dominate · CFO South Africa

2023’s award winners for CFO, CHRO, and CIO Awards respectively, were immersed in dynamic and robust conversation as part of a distinguished panel discussion at the 9th Annual Executive Women’s Event.In an engaging panel at the 9th Annual Executive Women’s Event, top women executives discussed innovation, diversity and the unique challenges women face in the C-suite.
In an insightful panel discussion spearheaded by CFO South Africa’s content producer Jacqueline Maphala, Aneshree Naidoo, CFO at...