Olwethu Hoko

This year is hurtling along, and with a snap of two fingers, we find ourselves in March. With so much going on, one can be excused for not tuning into the Budget Speech delivered by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana last week. The good news is that we’ve rolled it all up in a brief highlights […]

Everybody knows somebody, right? It might be a family member, a work colleague, or perhaps a close friend who has been diagnosed with cancer. Hearing the utterance “I’m sorry but the news isn’t good it’s a very aggressive malignant tumor” must be one of the toughest things anybody can face. Unfortunately, the statistics back up […]

The end-of-year holidays are around the corner now, and it’s almost as if you can faintly hear the brass bell clanking in the background, signaling to all the exhausted runners that it’s the final lap of this year’s race. It’s time to dig deep, strain every sinew, and max out the last few bars of […]

Do you remember the aggressive “Arrive Alive” campaigns of the 90s? They were a pretty big thing, leading up to the festive season exodus down to the coast. Billboards, radio spots and TV commercials drummed the message into our head – the importance of “taking it easy” on our national highways and byways and never […]

When Black Friday rolls around it’s a sure-fire sign that the year-end holidays are around the corner and it’s a great time to pick up stuff on the “cheap-cheap “especially if you are looking to fill a couple of Christmas stockings. Let’s be honest, who doesn’t enjoy splurging now and then (even if it’s just […]

Like many popular traditions, people have been exchanging gifts for a very long time. Regardless of, personal taste, or even what the latest trends are, taking the time to acquire, wrap, and hand over something of value to a close friend or family member, has been a time-honoured tradition that millions of people around the […]

Can you believe it’s almost the end of the year again? It honestly feels like only yesterday that all the beaches around the country were closed, as the second wave of Coronavirus replaced traditional Ho Ho Ho with a more unfamiliar Co Co Co-vid. Thousands of unfortunate South African families, who flocked down to the […]

We don’t lie around in silk robes contemplating our mortality like we did thousands of years ago, and that’s because “culture” (a shared idea of what it means to be alive) has, to a degree, replaced the deep angst and hard questions that our ancestors seemed to wrestle with more than we do today. Life […]

Talking about getting some long overdue stuff ticked off your personal to-do list – when last did you take the time to review your life insurance policy? Maybe your policy is already a couple of years old, and in that time, you’ve been in-between jobs, had a couple of pay hikes, or even got married […]

More and more people are doing the “live together” thing before they fully commit and tie the knot. It makes perfect sense for a whole bunch of reasons, but on top of that common sense pile is the simple fact that you need to be on the same page when it comes to your finances […]