Seaneys Hair Port

Seaneys Hair Port is, a hair, and nails specialised salon that offers its clients a wide range of products and services. The salon is famous for its highly trained hair and nail specialists, who offer nothing but the best to their clientele. Their slogan beauty lies in the women emphasises the salons commitment to beauty.
The salon has been operational for over 8 years and they hope to introduce more products and open branches across the country. The self-sustained salon gives credit to its clients, for the good working relationship that they have and hope to continue having in the years to come. The salon offers its services to female clients, although it also caters for male clients in terms of haircuts and dreadlocks, they also give advice to clients on hair products and suitable hairstyles for certain occasions.
Each of the salons hair dressers has an area of focus in terms of hair styles, ensuring that they cater for a vast majority of clients. The services that they offer include hair relaxing, styling, hair plating, artificial bonding (including Brazilian and Indian hair) as well as artificial nails, manicure and pedicure. The staff is professional, friendly, ethical and above all they are ethically stylish.
There is an incentive for clients who spend over R2000 a day for snacks, refreshments, breakfast and lunch. The clients get the luxury to choose what they wish to eat and one of the friendly staff will ensure that the food is provided to the client.
Charity Mothoa is a regular customer at Seaneys Hair Port, she has been using the products and services of the salon for the past 3 years, the client claims that the service is so good that she does not mind spending all day with them, she also says that the service is excellent that she does not worry about the price tag “they have top notch service when my hair and nails look extra stunning then the price is not a problem for me,” she says.
Audey Reinek, the co- founder and manager of the salon, also indicated that the salon not only focuses on ensuring that they offer the best service to their clients but also empowers the staff, so that they too can be able to start and manage their salons in the near future. He teaches the staff the financial and managerial aspect of owning a salon.
Bonolo Masindi, is a professional hair dresser and he has been working at the salon for 3 years. He specialises mainly in artificial bonding, and relaxing of hair. Bonolo is not only happy to be working at Seaneys but motivated as well because he has been getting training on how to manage a salon, “it is so encouraging working here, we meet new people every day, it also feels good to see customers happy because of the work that we do, and above all I learn a whole lot of things, so all in all it is a delicate experience” he says.
Bonolo suggest the so called “drunk in love hair style “for a cocktail party, kinky always does the trick for an informal occasion and clean, short or long hair for the office lady”.

Vision:                                                                                                                                                        To explore our experiences and to create a favourable environment for our clients and to also give them exceptional hospitality.
Mission:                                                                                                                                                    Reach the needs of clients and continually improve our services and to go places in terms of hair products and service.
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Dietitian saves the Day

Over the past years South Africa has gained attention in regard to the bad eating habits, eating disorders and chronic diseases.   The recent study by the Chronic Diseases Initiative in Africa (CDIA) and the Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in partnership with the Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa (HSF) and Pharma Dynamics revealed the disturbing misconceptions of unhealthy eating habits of many South Africans at a time of chronic conditions such as heat diseases.
Chronic diseases such as hypertension (raised blood pressure) hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol levels), type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer of the lungs, pancreas, colon, breast and rectum can actually be prevented since they are primarily caused by a similar factor, unhealthy eating habits and lack of exercise.
Ivonne Mashite is a consultant dietitian, she reckons that a healthy person should have a minimum of 50 or 60 percent energy per day; this could be a combination of all the vitals that a body needs, be it vitamins, protein or carbohydrates. Nevertheless, even if one has the minimum energy requirements level for a day, they should still have a healthy diet, have a fruit in the morning, and ensure that you drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.
Ivonne has a list of five things that she recommends that people adhere to, to stay healthy, they are: eat lots of vegetables, fruits, fiber  which you can get from eating tomato, zucchini, spinach, sweet potato, onion, kales and cooked Brussels sprouts, drink lots of water and exercise. “I always tell people to do these five things and I know they will be healthy’ she says.
Getting children to eat vegetables is most parents’ nightmare, Ivonne advises parents to make the young ones love their veggies by being more creative with the preparations, cut them into beautiful shapes or alternatively mix them with soup or in stew.  When Children are growing they need fat, as it is a crucial factor when it comes to their brain, not just any type of fat, good fat, avocado for instance contain very good fats.  She also advises that vegetables should be eaten as raw as possible, those who use frozen vegetables should “defrost them and add them to the cooked food they have more vitals when used in this form than when overcooked” Ivonne added.
The say too much of everything is bad proves to be true after all, Ivonne confirmed that, eating a burger once in a while or fried chips is not bad but it becomes a problem when fatty foods are eaten constantly without any form of physical exercise. A balanced diet consists of a balance of all the vitals that a body needs.

A jump to remember

 When I felt the belt tightening, I knew this would be an experience I would live to remember. The palpitating beat of my heart and the perspiration on my back confirmed my inevitable fear.  In the perfect world movie directors continue to sell to us, bungee jumping looks like an easily done daily activity. Truth is, bungee jumping is a bit easier said than done.
Toppieshoek is a Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Owned leadership development center and is situated in the North West province near the Hartebeespoort dam, about an hours’ drive from Pretoria. The place is breath-taking and so was the experience, almost literally. It is just unfortunate that this is the place I learned of my fear of heights.
It was on a beautiful Thursday morning when I accompanied junior students for a leadership trip. There were various activities that we all participated in. Well, I believe one is never too old for a bit of fun, and the experience brought out the child in me. Believe me, there is a child in every one of us. Bungee jumping was the last activity of the day, I was very excited, I have always seen people Jump, and I thought to myself, “here I am and the opportunity has presented itself, there is no way I am letting it pass.”
The level of excitement was no longer the same when one of the students cried and called out for her mummy, but hey, I have always wanted to do this, I told myself I was brave and nothing was going to stop me.
My partner and I moved closer and the time to climb up had finally arrived. The facilitators helped us tighten the belts, I had a chance to back down and not do it, but I did not. My partner climbed the pole first, she looked down and realized I was having second thoughts and she cheerfully said, “Come Leila it is going to be fun, you should come and see the view of the dam from up here.” There I was, climbing the stairs up, on the third stair of the pole I could feel my adrenalin pump increasing, I should have listened to the facilitators when they told me not to look down. Nevertheless I looked down and my eyes instantly turned red and there I was calling for mummy as well.
My mouth turned dry, my hands were shaking but I had to hold on tight or else I would fall, this was when I realized that heights were not my thing. But I refused to let my fear take over and not allow me to do something that I have dreamed of doing from the very first day I saw someone bungee jumping. I held on tight to the pole, closed my eyes for a while, I moved up and finally I was up there.
It was amazing, the view was extra ordinary, I was so excited to be up there for a moment I forgot that the main business of the day was still to come, the jumping part. I just allowed myself to enjoy the moment, I was no longer scared, and it felt so good just having accomplished the first part of the activity. I just could not get enough of the view from up there; I wanted to sit there and never jump down.
Unfortunately my excitement was cut short when the facilitator reminded me I had to walk on the robes up there and I had to jump. At that moment, I wished bungee jumping should have remained a dream and nothing more. Fear got the better of me again, I felt like crying, but I contained myself; all I did was scream “I am scared” over and over again. As they kept saying I could do it, I felt more annoyed than motivated to continue. They were trying to encourage me, but at that moment all I wanted was to see myself on the ground. Nothing they said mattered, jumping just had to be out of the list.
I closed my eyes, had a short dialogue with myself, and I decided that “you know what? I am jumping,” I had fun, I enjoyed the view but it was time to jump. I closed my eyes again and I literally took a leap of faith. The last I remember, I was jumping, when I woke up there were people around me. As embarrassed as I was, I stood up, held my head high, and asked what had happened. Well, I had passed out and hit my head on the ground, I was bleeding but I was happy. The accident did not matter much, I was happy that I had just had an experience of a life time. One I would never forget.
I have never gone back, so I am not sure if I am still scared but if I had an opportunity to do it again, I would not even think twice. I would proudly do it, and the rest would sort itself out. If I were to advice someone who has never went bungee jumping, I would definitely recommend it. In all the experiences that we have, there is always a good story that comes out of it, if not a funny embarrassing one.