Constellations, a series of magical campfire encounters at small hidden clearings tucked into the forest along the riverbed on Spier Wine Estate
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The ‘green city in the sun’ is burning up
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Their majesty
Alex Dodd bows down before Zanele Muholi at Norval Foundation
#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
10X is one to watch even as CEO exits
All eyes on industry disruptor as founder exits. Will new majority shareholders 10X 10X?
Mother Nature is on fire again
Burn it to the ground, build it up again. Remind you of something?
Kilimanjaro burning
Fires shaped Mount Kilimanjaro’s unique environment. Now they threaten it
Just kidding … or maybe not … lol etc 🤣🤦♂️🤷♀️😜
Memes, like political cartoons, covertly – and sometimes explicitly – mock and challenge abuses of power
A crafty new take on the Don Pedro
The boozy milkshake from the 80s, gets a crafty little remake
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Around a campfire on a dark and starry night …
Constellations, a series of magical campfire encounters at small hidden clearings tucked into the forest along the riverbed on Spier Wine Estate
The ‘green city in the sun’ is burning up
That’s the problem with paving over paradise
Their majesty
Alex Dodd bows down before Zanele Muholi at Norval Foundation
#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
10X is one to watch even as CEO exits
All eyes on industry disruptor as founder exits. Will new majority shareholders 10X 10X?
Mother Nature is on fire again
Burn it to the ground, build it up again. Remind you of something?
Kilimanjaro burning
Fires shaped Mount Kilimanjaro’s unique environment. Now they threaten it
Just kidding … or maybe not … lol etc 🤣🤦♂️🤷♀️😜
Memes, like political cartoons, covertly – and sometimes explicitly – mock and challenge abuses of power
A crafty new take on the Don Pedro
The boozy milkshake from the 80s, gets a crafty little remake
Zeitz gives us back the days we lost
Zeitz Mocaa wrote to me today, day 11ty million of lockdown, and said they had extended my membership by the number of days that nasty virus
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Wounded and healed
Zanele Muholi at Norval: a a very confronting (and a little bit comforting) show
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
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
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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Current Affairs
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
A crafty new take on the Don Pedro
The boozy milkshake from the 80s, gets a crafty little remake
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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Health
Mother Nature is on fire again
Burn it to the ground, build it up again. Remind you of something?
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
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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