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These were South Africa’s top-selling vehicles in a turbulent 2020 Here are the top overall and segment performers in a pandemic-hit year which saw total sales dip nearly 30% By Denis Droppa - 21 January 2021 The Toyota Hilux retained its customary spot as SA’s best-selling vehicle in 2020. Image: SUPPLIED In 2020, the pandemic saw local new-vehicle sales declining 29.1% to 380,449 units, levels last seen two decades ago. While much of the fall was due to the hard lockdown that forced vehicle factories and dealerships to close from late March to the middle o...

These are the areas where South Africans are buying second homes Subscribe Gauteng is the province of choice for owners of two or more properties, new data from analytics company Lightstone shows. The group’s data includes individuals who owned two or more properties in different provinces as well as the volume of properties owned by multiple property owners. Of the owners with two properties in different provinces (whose first property was bought in Gauteng), 31% purchased their second property in the Western Cape and 26% opted for KwaZulu-Natal. “This would correspond with our previous...

Buying a home on South Africa’s coast vs inland Subscribe Data analytics group Lightstone has published new data on South Africa’s property market, highlighting the state of the country’s housing market and the cost of buying a home. The data shows that national house price inflation was 2.1% at the end of July 2020. However, the low and mid-value housing segments have continued to buck the market trend by growing by more than 5% annually. By comparison, the high and luxury segments are inflating at a lower rate below 2% per annum. “Among our major municipalities the coastal municipal...

Castle & Key Finally Has An American Whiskey To Call Its Own Castle & Key Finally Has An American Whiskey To Call Its Own The saga of the Castle & Key distillery out of Kentucky is one we’ve documented well here at The Whiskey Wash since it first came on the radar back in 2014 at the site of the historic and pretty well abandoned Old Taylor Distillery. It has been a heck of a ride for those working there in the ensuing years, most of that time under the helm of female master distiller Marianne Eaves. She’s been gone from there for a bit now, but in her wake work has continued, and now the...

Dota 2’s new Hero Hoodwink has arrived along with the massive Mistwoods Update Earlier in the week, Dota 2 developer Valve announced its flagship MOBA game was in for a shiny new update on December 17 – so, this very day. The studio revealed practically nothing about the patch’s content, other than its name – “the Mistwood update” – and previously that the multiplayer game’s newest Hero would be dropping with 7.28. Now, however, we know what’s in store – the patch notes have dropped, and we’ve laid it all out for you below. As detailed in the Dota 2 7.28 update notes,...