Wanted Podcast

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Business Day Wanted’s audio home, for news, interviews and conversations from the worlds of Luxury Lifestyle and Culture.

  1. 05/11/2025

    From natural hair to a new kind of ‘welth’

    In this episode of the Wanted Podcast, after a bit of a hiatus, we bring back Wanted Beauty, with a conversation between our beauty contributor Mathahle Stofile and Taryn Gill, a beauty and wellness entrepreneur. Gill is the founder of the natural haircare brand The Perfect Hair. Launched a decade ago, the brand has built a loyal following among women of colour who choose to wear their natural kinks, curls and waves proudly and is available in over 600 stores. In this conversation she talks about scale, natural hair fatigue, partnerships, survival and her latest pivot into the world of well-being. Remember to like, subscribe, share, and talk about the podcast, so our work can reach as many of you as possible. You can find us on Iono, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. We are @wantedonlinesa on the socials, and we update wantedonlinesa.co.za daily.

    41 min

  2. 01/09/2025

    In the Spotlight: FNB Art Prize winner Thato Toeba

    In this episode, as we enter September, the traditional arts & culture month in Johannesburg, we bring you an art conversation. Recently, the recipient of the 2025 FNB Art Prize was announced. The prestigious annual prize – which comes with a hundred thousand rands, exhibition space at FNB Art Joburg and a solo show at the Johannesburg Art Gallery – has been awarded to Thato Toeba, a Lesotho national just five years into their art career. Toeba’s interest in the social sciences, identity, power, justice, history, and share of voice, informs their mixed media photomontage and assemblage. In selecting Toeba as this year’s recipient, the jury recognised their work as exuding a quiet force, deployed with clarity and rich materiality, which demonstrated as much commitment to process as to meaning. In our recent conversation, we spoke about how they came from being a practising lawyer, studying towards a PHD, to bagging one of the continent’s most desirable art prize. We spoke about the Lesotho of their formative years; corruption; how they developed their practice from a photography habit and an organic childhood flair for collage and what is still to come from an extraordinary talent. Enjoy. Remember to like, subscribe, share, and talk about the podcast, so our work can reach as many of you as possible. You can find us on Iono, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. We are @wantedonlinesa on the socials, and we update wantedonlinesa.co.za daily.

    46 min

  3. 27/08/2025

    Join the Most Wanted Club

    At Business Day Wanted, we strive to be more than just a content platform, but a conduit, opening portals into the world of luxury, not only through content, but in our audience’s lived experience. Our most ambitious venture to date, is our foray into the Private Members Club space, through the Most Wanted Club. A membership to the Most Wanted Club grants you not only access to exclusive events and lifestyle services, but to a global network of like-minded individuals, in a world that previously, you could only dream of. From this September, the Most Wanted Club is open for membership. In this episode, we meet Paulo Dos Santos, Director of Quintessentially South Africa and Business Day Wanted’s partner in delivering the Most Wanted Club. Quintessentially is the world’s leading lifestyle management group, that takes luxury concierge to an entirely new level. We chatted to Di Santos recently, about his long history in the luxury business and dived deeper into the wondrous world of the most wanted club.         Go to mostwantedclub.africa to unlock your new world. Remember to like, share, subscribe and talk about the podcast. You can reach out to us via email at  MpyeS@arena.africa with any suggestions, comments, or complaints. You can find us on Iono, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. We are @wantedonlinesa on the socials, and we update wantedonlinesa.co.za daily.

    43 min

  4. 24/07/2025

    100% Design Futures: Phillipe Van Der Merwe

    From July 24 - 27, RX Africa will host 100% Design, Africa’s finest international design fair. Held annually at the Sandton International Convention Centre, the showcase sees a gathering of the cream of the interior and adjacent design industries, bringing together “an array of domains, from furniture and product design to technology and art.” Wanted was there in 2024, collaborating on a booth with some of our friends in the industry. We spent the weekend meeting and chatting to our readers, crafters and collaborators. The more formal conversations took the form of a series of recorded interviews with our partners, which we have shared with you on this podcast over the last few months. We spoke to Bielle Bellingham (then executive creative director of Decorex and 100% Design); the artist Fhatuwani Mukheli, Zanele Kumalo, the associate director at Kalashnikovv Gallery and Greg Gamble, co-founder at Tonic Design. In this, the last episode of the series, we speak with Philippe van der Merwe, interior designer and co-owner with Gamble, of Tonic Design. Philippe takes us through the allure of design fairs, the convergence of art and design, the importance of personalities in the design world and a lot more.

    9 min

  5. 14/07/2025

    100% Design Futures: Greg Gamble

    From July 24 - 27, RX Africa will host 100% Design, Africa’s finest international design fair. Held annually at the Sandton International Convention Centre, the showcase sees a gathering of the cream of the interior and adjacent design industries, bringing together “an array of domains, from furniture and product design to technology and art.” Wanted was there in 2024, collaborating on a booth with some of our friends in the industry. We spent the weekend meeting and chatting to our readers, crafters, and collaborators. The more formal conversations took the form of a series of recorded interviews with our partners, and over the last few months, as we built up to this year’s fair, we have shared those conversations. We spoke to Bielle Bellingham (then Executive Creative Director of Decorex and 100% Design); the artist Fhatuwani Mukheli and Zanele Kumalo, Associate Director at Kalashnikov Gallery. All these conversations can be accessed on our archive. In this episode, we speak with Greg Gamble, interior designer and co-owner of Tonic Design. Greg takes us through, among other things, about the transformative nature of design fairs; the convergence of art and design; the future of African design and the Tonic approach to design projects. Remember to like, subscribe, share, and talk about the podcast, so we can share our work with as many of you as possible. You can find us on Iono, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. We are @wantedonlinesa on the socials, and we update wantedonlinesa.co.za daily.

    11 min

  6. 19/06/2025

    100% Design Futures: Fhatuwani Mukheli

    From July 24 - 27, RX Africa will host 100% Design, Africa’s finest international design fair. Held annually at the Sandton International Convention Centre, the showcase sees a gathering of the cream of the interior and adjacent design industries, bringing together “an array of domains, from furniture and product design to technology and art.” Wanted was there in 2024, collaborating on a booth with some of our friends in the industry. We spent the weekend meeting and chatting to our readers, crafters, and collaborators. The more formal conversations took the form of a series of recorded interviews with our partners, and over the last few months, as we build up to this year’s fair, we have been sharing those conversations. We spoke to Bielle Bellingham (then Executive Creative Director of Decorex and 100% Design); Greg Gamble and Phillipe Van Der Merwe of Tonic Design; the artist Fhatuwani Mukheli and Zanele Kumalo, Associate Director at Kalashnikov Gallery. In this episode, we speak with Mukheli. The multidisciplinary artist and all-round creative force spoke, among other things, about the transformative nature of design fairs; the convergence of art and design; the future of African design and the importance of community. Remember to like, subscribe, share, and talk about the podcast, so we can share our work with as many of you as possible. You can find us on Iono, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. We are @wantedonlinesa on the socials, and we update wantedonlinesa.co.za daily.

    12 min

  7. 19/05/2025

    100% Design Futures: Bielle Bellingham

    From the 24th to the 27th of July 2025, RX Africa will host 100% Design, Africa’s finest international design fair. Held annually at the Sandton International Convention Centre, the showcase sees a gathering of the cream of the interior and adjacent design industries, bringing together “an array of domains, from furniture and product design to technology and art.” Wanted was there in 2024, collaborating on a booth with some of our friends in the industry. We spent the weekend meeting and chatting to our readers, crafters, and collaborators. The more formal conversations took the form of a series of recorded interviews with our partners, and over the next few months, as we build up to this year’s fair, we will be sharing those conversations. We spoke to Bielle Bellingham (then Executive Creative Director of Decorex and 100% Design); Greg Gamble and Phillipe Van Der Merwe of Tonic Design; the artist Fhatuwani Mukheli and Zanele Kumalo, Associate Director at Kalashnikov Gallery, whose interview we posted last month. In this episode, we speak with Bellingham. The writer, design commentator and former editor recently left her post at Decorex and 100% Design, and is now the Brand and Business Director at Chommies, the handcrafted accessories brand for humans and pets. She spoke, among other things, about the transformative nature of design fairs; the convergence of art and design; the cult of design personality and the future of African design. Remember to like, subscribe, share, and talk about to the podcast, so we can share our work with as many of you as possible. You can find us on Iono, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. We are @wantedonlinesa on the socials, and we update wantedonlinesa.co.za daily.

    11 min

  8. 07/04/2025

    100% Design Futures: Zanele Kumalo

    In this episode of the Wanted Podcast, we begin with Kumalo, a seasoned journalist, editor, cultural curator, commentator, and tastemaker. She speaks, amongst other things, about the transformative nature of design fairs; the convergence of art and design; the cult of design personality and the future of African design. Remember to like, subscribe, share, and talk about to the podcast, so we can share our work with as many of you as possible. We are @wantedonlinesa on the socials and update our website www.wantedonline.co.za daily.

    8 min
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