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Nolu Mkhonza Where else can you order a new beauty product online, get a call from the creator of the product and end up having a fat chat about her entrepreneurial journey, plus get your order an hour later? Only in South Africa. Nolu Mkhonza is co-owner and director of Hallyu Korean Skincare, an online platform for authentic Korean beauty products, and co-creator of Bephor, a K-Beauty haircare brand for natural hair. We’ll get to Bephor in a minute ... what I love about Hal

Last year I came across a luxury brand from Madagascar called Pok Pok on Instagram. I was drawn in by the intricate detail of the bags, zooming in to get a closer look, raffia worked into rounded and sculptural shapes, inspired, the brand explained, by the braiding techniques used in the creation of the hairstyles of southern Madagascar. According to the brand: ‘Braids speak without words. In Malagasy culture, braids are a silent language, a coded system read by an entire vil

Lots didn’t set out to build a haircare brand.

Nirox. UNI FORM’s performance with ecological artist Annegret Affolderbach, who has spent some time pounding rock to a fine powder of different shades – a colour palette of winter highveld, earthy and charred grasslands. The powder became dye. In a three-hour session, Affolderbach performed the dyeing process of the cotton, set to become part of an upcoming collection. Rock sketch, Ruby Valentine Recall – UNI FORM’s founder and creative director Luke Radloff won the inaugur

Things change so quickly you forget what they looked like before. Suddenly you realise your usual routes have shifted, and your habits have quietly rearranged themselves. Like … what was once a nursery car park with room to spare is now the busiest corner of Parktown North. Nine Yards, October 2025 The parking situation at the newish Nine Yards is frankly, diabolical. From early morning to late afternoon cars stream in and out as people descend on the precinct’s cafés, resta