PayFast is celebrating 10 years of growth and partnerships in the payment and ecommerce sectors of South Africa. Ten years ago PayFast’s founder and managing director, Jonathan Smit, had a vision of making online transactions simple, secure and accessible to all South African sellers and buyers. 

Heidi Patmore was our guest speaker on the 6th of July in Jozi at Primedia Place. Flight of Fancy? Was the leading question for the event as Heidi divulged all things drone related and gave us a small taste of what the future is going to look like. Our audience found out more than we could ever have imagined.

On the 27th of July 2017, we're doing something we've never done before in 10 years of running these events. We’re going to ask you pay for attendance. 

The Leadership Edition. In this time of reshuffling cabinets and building walls, God knows we need some of that good stuff. Who better than Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela to show us the way. We chose Madiba for our cover, because, well, we miss him. Featuring some of Africa's top business leaders, billionaires, hundred-millionaires and newly funded startup grommets, this edition aims to inspire and empower you to get cracking with your own path to leadership.

Heidi Patmore - In the not-so-distant future drones are going to be so central to our daily lives we’ll wonder how we managed without them. There are so many exciting projects and applications for drones and they’re impacting industries in amazing ways. Here are a few of the use cases that I think are going to be amazing. 

Fred Roed - Heavy Chef is letting the 1st floor of its prime office building in the heart of Silicon Cape - Zonnebloem/Woodstock in Cape Town. We're on Sir Lowry Road, quick access to N1 and N2. Fringe of the CBD, 300m2 with LOADS of parking - for R30,000. 

Fred Roed - Drones have truly arrived. However, the future is not just a million millennials adding clumsy drone footage to their vlogs. To unpack this airborne future, and just what drone technology means for us, we’ve asked renowned consultant, entrepreneur and investor, Heidi Patmore, to unpack her research on Thursday 6th July 2017, in Johannesburg. 

Fred Roed - 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 Leadership Edition. In this time of reshuffling cabinets and building walls, God knows we need some of that good stuff. Who better than Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela to show us the way. We chose Madiba for our cover, because, well, we miss him. Featuring some of Africa's top business leaders, billionaires, hundred-millionaires and newly funded startup grommets, this edition aims to inspire and empower you to get cracking with your own path to leadership.

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?).