Megaplex Newsletter 2019 February: Shopping in Sandton

Shopping in Sandton – February 2019

Welcome to Megaplex's monthly newsletter! We alert the up-market shopper to the new and interesting in Sandton and Bryanston. Please feel free to support our advertisers!  To subscribe, see our subscription page.

Contents:
Welcome ~ New Shops
Restaurant Review ~ Closed
Civic Tip ~ The Checkout

Links to Other Pages:
Megaplex Home – Overview of Shops, Facilities, and Accommodation in Northern Sandton.

Shopping Centres in Sunninghill:
The Square
Sunninghill Village
Sunhill Shopping Centre
Chilli Lane Shopping Centre
Chilli on Top Centre
The Core

Shopping Centres in and near Bryanston::
Cramerview Village
Nicolway Shopping Centre
Coachman's Crossing
Grosvenor Crossing
Hobart Grove Centre
Bryanston Shopping Centre
Riverside Shopping Centre
Hurlingham Pick 'n Pay Centre
Bryanpark Shopping Centre
Epsom Downs
Sloane Square

Shopping Centres in the Woodmead area:
Wendywood Centre
Woodmead Value Mart
Woodmead Super Value Centre
Woodmead Commercial Park
Woodmead Retail Park
Woodmead Square
Dunwoody Centre
Kelvin Village
The Bridge, Buccleuch
Other Shops and Shopping in Woodmead

Wedding Speech? –A Piece of Cake!

Learn public speaking in a relaxed, fun environment at Accenture Toastmasters: Meet 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month at 18:15 for 18:30 at Accenture, Waterfall Business Park. Call Rick on 082 389 3482 or email

Shopping Centres in Central Sandton::
Grayston Shopping Centre
Atholl Square Shopping Centre
Sandhurst Centre, Rivonia Rd

Shopping in and around Rivonia:
Rivonia Central
Rivonia Village Centre
Rivonia Junction
Mutual Mews
Early Dawn Mall
Shops in Central Rivonia
Shops in Northern Rivonia
Cambridge Crossing
Petervale Shopping Centre

Shopping Centres in
Greater Morningside:

Morningside Shopping Centre
The Wedge, Morningside
Morning Glen Mall
90 Degrees on Rivonia
Morning View
Sandton Court
Benmore Gardens
Shops in the Morningside Area

Almost all of us will one day need a blood transfusion

– Yet only 1% of people donate blood!

Make a difference to society! Donate at The Colony,  cor Jan Smuts & Rothesay Avenues, Craighall.  Phone:
011 447-6665
011 880-4994

Restaurants:
Restaurants in Rivonia,
Rivonia Restaurant reviews
Sandton Restaurant reviews
Morningside Restaurant reviews

Other Places of Interest:
Sandspruit Hiking Trail,
Ernest Ullmann Park Recreation Centre,
Montrose Nursery Garden Centre and Gia's Coffee Shop

Furnished Single Room to Let from Apr/May 2019 in Morningside

Cosy bedroom with private half bathroom (shower, basin, toilet). Carpeted, fully furnished and serviced. Shared kitchen, lounge, patio, garden and cats.  Secure parking. Close to shops and bus routes. Ideal for student, newly-employed, or recently separated. Call 082 389 3482, e-mail us, or click here.

New Listing for The Woodlands Lifestyle Centre

We recently visited "The Woodlands" and have now listed the businesses in their Lifestyle Centre on a new Megaplex web page. The Woodlands is an office park off Woodlands Drive and Western Service Road, Woodmead, with large open landscaped space and a game park. The Woodlands Lifestyle Centre has useful amenities for the businessperson such as a very friendly Mugg & Bean restaurant, dry cleaner, print shop, nursery school and a gym. The gym area also houses a beautician, biokinetics, a dentist, optometrist, and physiotherapist. The Parkrun fitness programme does a 5 km run in the park on Saturday mornings followed by a get-together at the Mugg and Bean restaurant.

To help you get ahead in public speaking, presentations and leadership. there's also a Toastmasters Club that is open to the public. They meet at 18:00 on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of most months at Pendo Energy, 22B The Woodlands, 26 Western Service Rd, Woodlands, Sandton.

Odd Jobs

'A neighbour in NC complained that the plants a landscaper sold her as "heavenly bamboo" weren’t actually a bamboo at all, but the shrub Nandina domestica. We had to acknowledge that she had, perhaps, truly been bamboozled.' –
Patricia O’Day, Bend, Oregon in AWADmail Issue 855.

 

Free Spreadsheets from Software Africa!

These spreadsheets will be e-mailed to you by auto-responder on request.  To use them you need Microsoft Excel (instructions included, but no batteries): Bank Account Reconciliation, Fuel Consumption Record, Rainfall Record, Water Meter Readings, Electricity Meter Readings, Mattress Turning Schedule, John Demartini Savings Calculator, and Quotation System with Bill of Materials: Click Here.

New on the Block, Movers and Shakers  Back to top

  • Aurora Medical Aesthetics (LG1 under the Pharmacy), Ground in Grayston Shopping Centre – Botox & Fillers, Vitamin Drips, Chemical Peels, Laser Therapy, Microneedling, Plasma Therapy,: Treatment of: Hair Restoration, Sclerotherapy, Scars & Burns, Body Contouring, Hair Removal, Pigmentation, Ageing, Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Acne, Acne Scars, Vein Removal, Stretch Marks.
  • Newly Listed in The Woodlands Office Park Lifestyle Centre

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Restaurant Review by Judith Back to top

***** Ocean Basket, Morningview Shopping Centre

A thoroughly decadent meal, our drinks were Appletizer and Ocean Basket's own dry white. I indulged in oysters and my partner in sole with great chips! We stretched ourselves to dessert. My partner had ice cream with decadent hot sauce and I went for an Irish coffee.

Thoroughly enjoyable meal and great service from Lebani.

Contact Details for Ocean Basket MorningviewBack to top

Funny Language, English...

If government bureaucracy has gone mad, can we call it “bureaucrazy”?

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Out of Their misery:  Back to top

  • Lola Boutique, Shop GF44 in Rivonia Village – Ladies fashion: Mainly local designs. Imported shoes.
  • Natalie's Flowers in Woodlands Office Park – Was Shop 5, Lifestyle Centre. A family-run florist for 20 years.

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Africa – the Duck Continent (II):

Julius says that a waterfowl that sits on the mountain-top must be a "peaking duck".

Election Update

Mmusi Maimane, well-known Leader of the well-known Democratic Alliance, writes:

[At SONA], President Ramaphosa showed that under the ANC, the State of the Nation was rather a State of No Action.

Whatever his intentions, the President is constrained by the ANC, is unable to act, and will not be able to stop his party’s intention to expropriate private land, homes and businesses without compensation.

Time is running out to save South Africa. Time is running out to save your right, and the right of your children, to own property without the risk of it being taken away by government.

If you stand for individual property rights and a growing economy, then stand with a party that will protect that right! Only the DA is big enough to challenge the ANC/EFF coalition of corruption, and with your help, we can win even more parliamentary seats in Election 2019.

Make a donation to protect our sacred constitutional rights.

The DA is the only party with a track record of good governance in South Africa’s biggest cities! Our solid agenda for change will sell failing SOEs, create fair access to jobs, cut the fat, create an honest and professional police service, grow our economy, and protect your constitutional rights!

Please make an investment in the future of our democracy!

Overheard at the Checkout

"How did the visit to the Doctor go?"

"He said everything I have is 'age-appropriate'."

"That's good..."

"It wasn't as reassuring as you might think: At some stage it will be 'age-appropriate' for me to die!"

Your name in print!  Would you like to contribute a shop- or restaurant review, a less obscure joke, or something else for this Newsletter?  Please e-mail us.  You will get full credit (unless you want anonymity).  Reach 5,986 shoppers and shop-owners: Advertise in this newsletter!  Editor: Rick Raubenheimer.


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