This will surely be Cape Town’s biggest post-Covid Coming Out party: a specially commissioned show featuring new work from Zolani Mahola and Gregory Maqoma
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Madiba: A view from the island
Reflecting on lockdown, Shui-Lyn White thinks about Madiba looking across the bay from Robben Island, thinking of his family now beyond reach
#Lockdown, but not out
A victim of the lockdown, Barbara Magrath has had to close her shop and studio and embrace the online world
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
Feeling old and tired? It gets worse
South Africans are not preparing for retirement, saying it is just not a priority, but few understand that running out of money means a lifestyle downgrade in old age
My own little muffin story
Easy-to-make bran muffins … without the sob story you normally get with internet recipes.
Vodacom: The lines are definitely down
Broken cellphone? Get a second opinion before shelling out more cash to your dreadful service provider
A silver linings kind of a day
We are very good at Bad News. Fear, negativity, pessimism … we hold them all close. Strife, forbearance and survival are our toolkit. But [… insert
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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 …
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The Baxter is back … with a bang
This will surely be Cape Town’s biggest post-Covid Coming Out party: a specially commissioned show featuring new work from Zolani Mahola and Gregory Maqoma
Madiba: A view from the island
Reflecting on lockdown, Shui-Lyn White thinks about Madiba looking across the bay from Robben Island, thinking of his family now beyond reach
#Lockdown, but not out
A victim of the lockdown, Barbara Magrath has had to close her shop and studio and embrace the online world
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
Feeling old and tired? It gets worse
South Africans are not preparing for retirement, saying it is just not a priority, but few understand that running out of money means a lifestyle downgrade in old age
My own little muffin story
Easy-to-make bran muffins … without the sob story you normally get with internet recipes.
Vodacom: The lines are definitely down
Broken cellphone? Get a second opinion before shelling out more cash to your dreadful service provider
A silver linings kind of a day
We are very good at Bad News. Fear, negativity, pessimism … we hold them all close. Strife, forbearance and survival are our toolkit. But [… insert
Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
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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
My own little muffin story
Easy-to-make bran muffins … without the sob story you normally get with internet recipes.
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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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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