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Dad’s Day Out with WE ARE EGG and Legends Barbers

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To take the Father’s Day shopping experience to the next level, WE ARE EGG has partnered with Legends Barbers, renowned experts in grooming services. WE ARE EGG invites all their male-identifying shoppers to join them for the ultimate Dad’s Day Out. The talented barbers from Legends Barbers will be on-site, offering a range of services such as light trims, hairline or fade clean-ups and beard trims. While shoppers and their dads enjoy their grooming sessions, they will be treated to complimentary beers from Jack Black. 

Make this Father’s Day one to remember with WE ARE EGG! 

Visit their stores on the 16th and 17th of June 2023, from 12h00 to 16h00, in Rosebank, Johannesburg and Cavendish Square, Cape Town.  

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Introducing GRYND

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SA’s iconic youth radio station Y, the plug to all things young, fresh and on trend, is set to shake up Youth Month with the launch of its exciting new platform called GRYND.

As an innovative outlet for play and exploration, GRYND, is a conference created to help young people face the current economic challenges head on, by enabling the conversation of multiple income streams and advising how to creatively upscale ‘side hustles’ through various digital platforms.

With a series of high-impact masterclasses and panel discussions, the June 24th gathering at Atlas Studios promises to be the ultimate ‘meetup’ experience for young people to both share and acquire knowledge from each other and to spark meaningful conversations around entrepreneurship in a digital age through the lens of successful and creative young professionals, culture narrators and social media leaders.

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DStv Content Creator Awards

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Calling all South African content creators, brands, influencers and agencies! There’s only one week left to enter the second annual DStv Content Creator Awards. It’s time to put your best piece of content or platform forward for the chance to be crowned a winner and follow in the pioneering footsteps of the likes of Nadia Jaftha, Donovan Goliath, Lemii Loco, Coconut Kelz, Siv Ngesi, Rudi Smit, Kim Jayde and the other 2022 winners.

Every year, the awards aim to evolve and introduce new elements. This year will see big changes across the categories, with several new awards being introduced, while some of the favourites return.

This year’s categories are now split into two buckets, namely: Captivating Content and Special Interest.

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HOT 102.7FM’s Hot Cares Throws Weight Behind 67 Blankets Campaign

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True to its vision of ‘making a meaningful difference to the lives of those around us’, HOT 102.7FM’s Hot Cares once again threw its weight behind the 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day campaign recently.

This time, stitch by stitch, with a few considerable extras thrown in!

Those extras amounted to over R1-million in airtime dedicated to 67 Blankets in the lead-up to the Johannesburg leg of the initiative’s ‘Local Blankets is Lekka’ campaign, for which HOT 102.7FM was named the media partner.

Hot Cares also dedicated R67 000 of wool, hooks and needles to the knitting of blankets for those less fortunate this winter – the central theme behind the 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day initiative.

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Comrades Marathon and what to carry with you as a runner

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If you have any runner friends or live in South Africa, you will have seen runners or supporters of runners counting down to the ultimate human race, the 96th Comrades Marathon, taking place in just a few days on Sunday, 11 June 2023. This year, the race starts in Pietermaritzburg and ends in Durban. With 20,000 entries, one can only imagine the hustle and bustle leading up to the big event. 

On the flip side, if you’re a runner, you’re just about to reach the end of your training programme and do the last-minute administrative preparations. GOOD LUCK! 

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