A hospitality leader whose career has taken in Amsterdam, Geneva, Hong Kong and Beijing is the new General Manager of Four Seasons Hotel The Westcliff, Johannesburg.

Moscow, Russia. Africa's fashion shows are full of cultural variety. Its shop shelves, argues Stephen Manzini, are not. Speaking at the BRICS+ Fashion Summit in Moscow, the Founder and CEO of Soweto Fashion Week and President of the South African Fashion Association called for African designer clothing to be sold through everyday retail, and for designers, retailers and international partners to work more closely to make it happen.

For a festival that has spent twenty years proving Hip Hop is here to stay, it took a host who could be everywhere at once. At Back To The City, South Africa's biggest Hip Hop festival, that job fell to Faith Makubung, better known as DJ Fae Fae.

Sunday afternoons on Y are about to sound a lot more pan-African. From 1 November, the youth radio station, previously known as YFM, will syndicate Apple Music Radio's Africa Now Radio with Nandi Madida, airing the show every Sunday at 1pm.

Some wines reward the people who wait for them. At the 2026 Veritas Awards, KWV's Laborie Blanc de Blancs 2020, matured for five years on the lees, took the competition's highest honour, the Duimpie Bayly Veritas Vertex Trophy.