Welcome to Country Meat Butchery in Morningside Shopping Centre. My name is Jaco Groot and my team and I are delighted to Meat you. My career started off in a small butchery close to my childhood home where I helped on Saturdays and school holidays, sometimes even on afternoons after school. I enjoyed the experience…
I was raised in Zondi 2, Soweto by my mother and was fortunate enough to receive a high school scholarship and bursaries for my university studies. I had my first job when I was 15 years old, working as a waitress, a job I kept for 5 years. Working in the service industry, while in…
The project, COLLABORURALATION is a coined-name that simply means “a collaboration in a rural setting” is about the 3 fine emerging self-taught artists, a group of 5 young artists who have won art awards before and have been involved in a successful show held in Mpumalanga and at Thomarts Gallery and 1 professional fine artist,…
In partnership with Morningside and Classic FM: Pomodoro Ristorante, The Green Peppercorn and Hussar Grill will be collaborating and hosting the PHOENIX CO ORCHESTRA for a special performance on 5 March 2021 from 3pm to 5pm. Classical musicians, like all of us have been adversely affected by COVID, with the closure of all public performance venues for…
Yumi Biltong was born out of a passion for delivering good tasting quality food. It all started online at the end of 2019 and has since evolved to opening our first kiosk at Morningside Shopping Centre. But that is only the beginning, we have such a bigger story to share. Yumi Biltong all started with my…
I’ll start with the Subluxation Medical definition: Is defined as a partial or incomplete dislocation Chiropractic definition: “A spinal subluxation is a situation in which one or more vertebra of the spine is out of alignment with the vertebra above or below it.” Basically speaking, one vertebra is locked on another, creating less or no movement to…
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” – Robert Swan, Let’s start with REUSABLES. It’s time to start thinking about the environment and how your actions affect it. With every sustainable change you make no matter how small will have a positive ripple effect that will inevitably…
Thomarts Gallery recently took part in Turbine Art Fair, which was online with viewing rooms from many other local galleries and art spaces. Mandisi Mncela’s debut, ‘Imiyalezo Yabadala’ was our offering to the Turbine Art fair. With the art fair running its course, is now available for socially distanced viewing at Thomarts Gallery, Morningside shopping…
Posture. Ooooph it even sounds super scary…aren’t most horror movies one word?Jaws Depraved Crawl Chucky Us Wow. The amount of literature, on how poor posture is ‘the new heart attack’ is astronomical. I shudder to write the following few things down on paper… In 13 years I have seen people with the worst posture live…
I’ll never forget 2017. I studied for a full year, well studied and worked and forgot about the rest… I mean what’s health anyway (lol). After that I … in layman’s terms, slipped two discs. I wore a brace and up till now, 2020 (the year from hell), I still very much do rehab. Daily….
