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GQ South Africa is the first and last word on men's style. With access to some of the world's top photographers and writers, GQ offers professional men content that is entertaining and enlightening. Whether it's fashion, tech, business, Hollywood or investigative journalism, GQ covers it all with intelligence and imagination.

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Upside down • I TOOK A FEW DAYS OFF RECENTLY TO REST AND RECHARGE (READ: BINGE-WATCH THE LATEST SEASON OF STRANGER THINGS). As much as it’s a series packed with ’80s nostalgia and Stephen King-esque themes – plus one hungry AF monster – it’s strangely (sorry!) quite relatable for anyone living in 2019.

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The Hit List • Managing your workday shouldn’t be a distraction unto itself. These apps make your phone handle the hard stuff

THE BEAUTY OF BLEND

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The evolution of music • British R&B singer and creator of new music genre wonky funk Neo Jessica Joshua (better known as Nao) talks about her bold and experimental sophomore album Saturn, participating in Afropunk SA and celebrating black identity

The unapologetic hitmaker • R&B maestro and fearless artistic experimentalist Miguel lands on local soil this December to perform at Afropunk SA

MINIMAL VS MAXIMAL

THE BEST THINGS YOU’VE NEVER HAD • Shake up your go-to bottle cops for something new

A night with the boys • Take a look inside GQ’s 2019 Father’s Day event, hosted with Waterfall Corner and The Hussar Grill

YOUR NEW EARPHONES ? SHADES • Keep forgetting your AirPods? Despair not. Bose’s first sunglasses will ensure that as long as you’re looking good, your music’s sounding good

Designed to win • The winner of the MINI Scouting Menswear Competition Shaylene Morris shares her inspiration and vision for her unisex couture brand, Bi Parel

How Mark Ronson escaped his funk… • … And wrote an album that wears his heart on it’s sleeve

Why Sundays are the horniest days • Fridays be damned

The 7 Funny People Reshaping Comedy Right Now • Introducing the new kings and queens of LOL

CAR OF THE SILVER SCREEN • Toyota’s most famous sports car returns from a 16-year hiatus. The fifth-generation Supra was developed in partnership with BMW and shares more than just its platform with the Z4. The question is: exactly how German is it?

TOYOTA SUPRA

Entry-level luxury • Based on Toyota’s C-HR, the UX is Lexus’ smallest crossover model. GQ drove both the regular and the hybrid versions

LEXUS UX

Premium workhorse • For more than five decades, the Hilux has been dominating the tar and dirt roads of Southern Africa. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Toyota introduced two special new models. GQ experienced both in Botswana and Zimbabwe

TOYOTA HILUX LEGEND 50

Give yourself some credit • How you feel about debt boils down to personal experience. Although running away in an attempt to avoid it won’t make it vanish – it may come as a relief that not all debt is bad. Senior director of consumer interactive at TransUnion Garnet Jensen sheds some light

Actuarial shake-up • Virtual Actuary is disrupting the industry with an innovative remuneration business model

This clever new service auto-cancels free your trials • The DoNotPay app’s latest feature gives you a crafty digital credit card number you can use to sign up for free trials around the web and never get charged

How to use tech to build your network – worldwide • One of the world’s top podcasters, Jordan Harbinger, shares how he uses tech tools to form real relationships

STILL SEARCHING • At 55, the consummate Hollywood star seems to have the Hollywood parts figured out,...