Good news! The fabulous Trolley Dollies of Gate 69 have walked away from that plane crash that was Covid19 and the Lockdown
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Heaven imagined … in broad daylight
Cape Town City Ballet dancers captured in broad daylight making love to Kentridge exhibition at Norval Foundation
From psychedelics to Moshoeshoe
Alex Dodd’s note about a visit to Kalk Bay Books reminds me of the joy of turning a kaleidoscope
Lockdown fatigue and a pandemic of exhaustion
Feeling a bit fatigued by it all? Shem … most South Africans are absolutely shattered
#Lockdown, but not out
A victim of the lockdown, Barbara Magrath has had to close her shop and studio and embrace the online world
Death of a King
The world is hushed for a moment as a herd mourns the passing of a king
You got me at ‘erotic tale of gothic horror’
Never underestimate the suggestive power of literature, says Alex Dodd. (Don’t say you weren’t warned.)
Corruption? Van Riebeeck started it
Apartheid was surely the most corrupt of all systems … colonialism doesn’t even bear thinking about …
New paper, new party, new hope
A new newspaper, a new political party .. feels a little like 1994. Let the fightback begin!
Daily Maverick goes to print
Daily Maverick bucks the global trend and moves from online only to a print edition. Bring out the croissants and the bubbles please
Tuning in to the ancients
Artefacts made of materials including bone, ivory, metal and clay help archaeologists to reconstruct the original African rhythm section
Dear comrades, let’s be more comradely
Cyril Ramaphosa’s letter to his ‘comrades’ about the scourge of corruption gives us all a little more oxygen
Hollywood, Harare
In the midst of such adversity, youthful Zimbabwean filmmakers armed with camcoders, laptops, cell phones and all manner of improvisations are keeping filmmaking alive
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Fasten your seatbelts, bitches!
Good news! The fabulous Trolley Dollies of Gate 69 have walked away from that plane crash that was Covid19 and the Lockdown
Heaven imagined … in broad daylight
Cape Town City Ballet dancers captured in broad daylight making love to Kentridge exhibition at Norval Foundation
From psychedelics to Moshoeshoe
Alex Dodd’s note about a visit to Kalk Bay Books reminds me of the joy of turning a kaleidoscope
Lockdown fatigue and a pandemic of exhaustion
Feeling a bit fatigued by it all? Shem … most South Africans are absolutely shattered
#Lockdown, but not out
A victim of the lockdown, Barbara Magrath has had to close her shop and studio and embrace the online world
Death of a King
The world is hushed for a moment as a herd mourns the passing of a king
You got me at ‘erotic tale of gothic horror’
Never underestimate the suggestive power of literature, says Alex Dodd. (Don’t say you weren’t warned.)
Corruption? Van Riebeeck started it
Apartheid was surely the most corrupt of all systems … colonialism doesn’t even bear thinking about …
New paper, new party, new hope
A new newspaper, a new political party .. feels a little like 1994. Let the fightback begin!
Daily Maverick goes to print
Daily Maverick bucks the global trend and moves from online only to a print edition. Bring out the croissants and the bubbles please
Tuning in to the ancients
Artefacts made of materials including bone, ivory, metal and clay help archaeologists to reconstruct the original African rhythm section
Dear comrades, let’s be more comradely
Cyril Ramaphosa’s letter to his ‘comrades’ about the scourge of corruption gives us all a little more oxygen
Hollywood, Harare
In the midst of such adversity, youthful Zimbabwean filmmakers armed with camcoders, laptops, cell phones and all manner of improvisations are keeping filmmaking alive
We have water, let’s spray some around
Switching on massive fountains in a deserted city centre as a drought comes to end seems like total madness
Desperate times in the beloved country
South Africa’s hospitality industry is bleeding, even the most successful businesses are under threat and begging to be allowed to get back to work
Letting go of lockdown
Lockdown dreaming of the best days out in Cape Town. Nothing beats the zipline
IMF loan: godsend, or a gift from hell?
If you are wondering whether the R70bn IMF loan to SA is nice super-cheap money when we need it most, or a noose around our necks, here are some of the facts
Book review: Seeing the land
… capturing “the haunting pull of an opaque war, still inscribed on the land … their work is done in the wake of traumatic pasts and poses questions about the relationship of the past to the future …
The Future delivered by balloon
Wireless Internet connectivity towers that float in the stratosphere promise to narrow the digital divide in Kenya
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Corruption? Van Riebeeck started it
Apartheid was surely the most corrupt of all systems … colonialism doesn’t even bear thinking about …
New paper, new party, new hope
A new newspaper, a new political party .. feels a little like 1994. Let the fightback begin!
Daily Maverick goes to print
Daily Maverick bucks the global trend and moves from online only to a print edition. Bring out the croissants and the bubbles please
Food & Drink
Foraging and feasting in a delicious city
A day foraging and feasting on wild food on the coast near Cape Point over-delivers in every way
Food and wine that (almost) tops the art
Layers and layers of pleasure, in every colour and shape, have been added week by week as we have popped in often, for a minute or
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Take one HQ, add a large portion of Bizerca …
Cape Town foodies will be interested to hear the news that the chef and owner of Bistrot Bizerca, Laurent Deslandes, will be joining the team at
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A feast fit for foodies as casino cooks up a change
The ‘hautest’ of foodies might look down on the casino complex culture otherwise so popular in South Africa … but perhaps not for long, if a
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Health
Priority #1: Let’s feed everyone
Unemployed young people are being trained in urban farming in the Philippi Horticultural Area. Hallelujah!
Covid-19 recovery is a chance to improve the African food system
The African food system was broken before Covid-19. Recovery efforts should be geared towards creating a better future.
Let’s flatten the TB curve next
The global response to Covid-19 has been inspiring. Meanwhile TB (for which there has been a treatment for 100 years!) is still the leading cause of death in South Africa
Vaccines matter now more than ever
All eyes are on Covid-19, which puts the victories that are won every day over vaccine-preventable diseases in low-income settings under threat
Call Off The Search
A survivor’s guide to train travel in SA
A 10-point guide to resisting the South African railway service’s best efforts to ruin what should be one of the most beautiful train journeys in the world.
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