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Hello Weekend, 11 May 2024.
The latest edition of News24's weekly digital weekend magazine is stuffed full of interviews, reviews, excerpts, and in-depth stories. Enjoy the read.
'It's about creating a legacy': Tashas Group holds on to SA while eyeing international expansion
By: Kaunda Selisho
As the beloved company - now known as the Tashas Group - approaches its 19th birthday in September, it has set its sights on expansion with no signs of slowing down.
Although the Tashas Group houses several businesses, the name does the size of the business no justice. Beyond the popular tashas cafe franchise, the business encompasses endearing locations such as The Flamingo Room, Le Parc by tashas, Avli, African Lounge, Perlage and Galaxy Bar.
They make up a conglomerate of 35 businesses that are spread across the globe in cities like London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh with a focus on bringing "inspired hospitality" to patrons as promised by the business' tagline.
The group's notoriously reclusive CEO and founder, Natasha Sideris, who formally became a Dubai-based expat a decade ago, tells News24 she has her sights set on a few more international additions in cities like Bahrain, Monaco, Marbella, London, Montenegro, Cyprus, and Athens based on her experience gained overseas.
WINE DINING | Farm to table: The legacy of Winshaw Vineyard's storied past
By: Daléne Fourie
Lieutenant McGuinness was fighting in the Anglo-Boer War and was buying mules for Queen Victoria's army. Because the Lieutenant didn't know much about mules, he offered Winshaw a job overseeing the 4500 mules on the Larrinaga bound from New Orleans to Cape Town. Which given our man's affinity for travel, he accepted. The Larrinaga finally reached Cape Town, fittingly, at the turn of the century, in January 1900, and with it, Dr William Charles Winshaw. Through an unlikely series of events, Dr Winshaw married an English nurse, Ada Day, and started making wine just outside Stellenbosch, and when the industry hit dire lows like the entire wine exports of South Africa in 1905 only amounting to £16 487 (which even WITH inflation doesn't tally up).
He founded the Stellenbosch Farmers Winery, a winemaking company to help the grape growers in a beer-drinking country mitigate the costs of farming vines by making and selling the wine, which was to become Distell, the biggest producer and distributor of alcohol and spirits in Africa, a crown jewel in SA wine, and a company recently acquired by Heineken (beer won). While I would love to tell you all the intricacies of that story, this is unfortunately not a history lesson but rather a fascinating report on what Charles's two great-grandsons, Pierre and JP Winshaw, are doing on the farm Klein Welmoed.
Evita, romance, lies and poetry: Franschhoek Literary Festival tickets are selling out fast
By: Shaun de Waal
Tickets for sessions at the Franschhoek Literary Festival (FLF), which takes place from 17 to 19 May in the historic Western Cape town, are selling out fast. For instance, the workshops that are a newly extended component of the festival are now all sold out. Others that sold out early have had some extra tickets released.
Here are several sessions for which you can still book:
Decades of dread: The most memorable horror remakes and sequels ever made
By: Ilan Preskovsky
It's hard to adequately convey just how much of a pleasant surprise The First Omen – the recently released prequel to the 1970s Antichrist classic, The Omen - was. A few months ago, the truly execrable The Exorcist: Believer proved once again that legacy horror sequels were almost always a terrible idea and aside from very, very rare exceptions like Annabelle: Creation and Ouija: Origin of Evil, the less said about horror prequels (and most prequels, frankly) the better.
SEE | Tequila showcase: Cinco de Mayo fiesta merged Mexican heritage with haute cuisine
By: Phumi Ramalepe
When it comes to celebrating Mexican holidays such as Cinco de Mayo, tequila is obviously the drink of choice, and what better way to enjoy those than with foods that bring out their true, natural flavours?
Cinco de Mayo, which translates into "the 5th of May," is a Mexican holiday celebrating Mexico's victory against France in at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. To celebrate this day, Don Julio, the Mexican tequila brand in South Africa, hosted a tequila and food pairing at Konka Day Club on Saturday.
The American tool that helps make BMW's in-line six engines so good
By: Lance Branquinho
You can argue the merits of V12s, V10s, V8s, V6s, and boxer engines all you like, but the most harmonised and perfect engine configuration is in the in-line six. And it has nothing to do with numerology and everything to do with physics. Powerful, with an inherent balance impossible to engineer into other engine configurations, in-line sixes are the choice for those drivers who value the perfect blend of smoothness and power.
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Tyla stole the show at the Met Gala and needed four male Met Gala staffers to carry her: SA's Tyla stole the show at the Met Gala in a jaw-dropping, form-fitting sculptural gown created entirely of sand by Olivier Rousteing of Balmain.
Tyla made her debut at the Costume Institute celebration and said that the "Sands of Time" theme was referencing the gala's dress code "Garden of Time". The dress was so fragile and difficult to walk in that four male models from the gala had to carry the Grammy-winning artist across the carpet and up the stairs.
Lessons in late motherhood: Cameron Diaz's journey at 51 sparks conversation on pregnancy after 35: Cameron Diaz gave birth to her second child with husband, Benji Madden, in March this year at the age of 51. This comes as no surprise given that the last fifty years has seen a global trend of increasing maternal age thanks to the wider availability of assisted reproductive technologies, more job opportunities for women and improved financial stability later on in their lives. But what are the risks involved in becoming a mother after the age of 35?
London return for under R10K? Secrets to snagging affordable flights to Europe's cheap(er) cities: If you’re dreaming of a European escape, you’ve likely also been jolted awake by absurd flight prices and the indomitable strength of the euro and pound. Unfortunately, we can’t do anything about either, but we can gently guide you to the cheapest European cities to reach from South Africa. And although you may be tempted to jet directly to your desired destination, if money is a concern, you’re better off starting with cheaper flights, even if it lands you somewhere nearby.
