Heavy Chef speaks to fourth generation leader, Simon Back, on what it's like running a 100 year old family legacy that is creating world class wine - Backsberg Wine.

The Heavy Chef Event on the 30th of May featured Nic Haralambous, the man behind Nic Harry, the menswear fashion outlet. Nic gave our audience a captivating look into the South African retail industry and how it compares to international retail, its fight against the growing e-commerce culture and the struggles of big name brands and department stores.

There isn’t a business owner or HR manager who doesn’t get cold sweats just thinking about what their employees do, say, and share on social media. The scale of the business risk is tough to stomach, but there’s a golden marketing opportunity just waiting to be unlocked.

Besides being a radio show host, designer, entrepreneur and polymath, Simon Dingle has launched several FinTech startups. He is one of Africa's most vocal proponents of the technology that is Blockchain. In this seminal Heavy Chef talk, hosted at Primedia Johannesburg and then again in Cape Town because of popularity, Simon explains why he is so excited about Blockchain - and why you should be too.

Heavy Chef, best known for its monthly events held in Johannesburg and Cape Town, launched its ‘Tours” offering on Valentine’s Day, 2017. Heavy Chef founder, Fred Roed, announced at a packed FinTech-themed gathering in Cape Town, that Heavy Chef will be taking a limited number of delegates to London’s Silicon Roundabout, in April this year.

Katlego Maphai is the dynamic CEO of PoS #FinTech startup Yoco. On Valentine's Day 2017, Katlego spoke about the history and the growth of Yoco, how it spent 2 years in beta while competitors were growing in the market. 

Andrew Watkins-Ball is CEO of JUMO, and is one of Africa's most exciting entrepreneurs. Andrew spoke about the process of JUMO and how JUMO monitors the behavioural patterns of the mobile banking and finance world, because everyone that has a phone has a digital footprint.

Craig founded the @southafrica account on Instagram as his personal passion project. It has now become an account that gathers over 1 million impressions a week and is a spectacle of how amazing the country is. Listen to him speak about how he started and the journey it has take him on.

Here it is at last. The long-awaited Heavy Chef Magazine: The Technology Edition. Tech being the order of the day at HC, it kinda makes sense that we focus an entire journal on the topic, right? Well, wait no longer. We’ve published a comprehensive magnum opus covering the most salient topics in Tech on the African continent. 

Fees will fall! - well, not quite yet, but until they do here is a free edition of the Heavy Chef magazine: The Education Edition. Edited and overseen by the irrepressible Mike Perk, Co-founder of digital innovation agency WWC, this magazine features some of the brightest minds in education on the African continent. The Education Edition includes entries and interviews with Sam Paddock, Sean Riley and Tarryn Knight. 

Yes! The third edition is up for grabs. Featuring the creme of Africa’s creative crop, you won’t find more inspiring goodness than in the shiny pages of Heavy Chef Magazine: The Creativity Edition. Topics covered include Virtual Reality, creative SEO, social media, viral campaigns and the science of creativity. The Heavy Chefs in this edition include Alistair King, Sammy-Jane Every, Mike Sharman, Fred Roed, Uno de Waal, Alexandra van Tonder, Fran Luckin and the almighty Xolisa Dyeshana.

The second edition is here. Curated by the Heavy Chef team, assisted by the good people at WWC and contributed to by the developers in the HC community, this thing is a nerd tour-de-force. In this issue, we focus on e-commerce and the people behind the burgeoning African industry. You may not understand all of it, but you’ll certainly look like a smart fella when someone peers over your shoulder to see what you’re reading.

Woooop! Here it is. The first ever, gleaming preening truth-dealing Heavy Chef Magazine (or "HC Mag" as we've started to call it - sorta like GQ Mag, but for smarter sexier people than the palookas who read GQ, y'know?).