Team SA’s outfits for the opening ceremony of the Olympics brought to mind an outing of the Voortrekker Youth …
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Begging for help to end the taxi wars
Being shot at, walking for miles and miles in the cold, losing their income: Horrified commuters ask: Where are the police? Where is the Army? Where are our leaders?
Violence in SA: an uprising of elites, not of the people
Blaming the poor for the recent violence is quite a typical response in our half-baked democracy, where all the old power structures and networks and etc remain intact
Postcards from the edgy
A shocker of a week for some of us, but probably just another bleak and brutal week for most South Africans.
Last call for the Trolley Dollies at Gate 69
The Trolley Dollies ending their 5-year residency at Gate 69 with a final show
Bush life: delicious without the human beastliness
A few days in Kruger … enough said …
Being homeless is not a crime
Please sign the petition to stop the criminalisation of homelessness in Cape Town
A beauty, rain or shine
Thinking of Staycationing this year? Look no further than Cape Town! What a dreamy city, even if you live here. The love affair keeps surprising me
A South African summer at the Serpentine
Everywhere you look, there is a new power emerging, a more feminine, less prescriptive force. It presumes less and knows more … So too at the Serpentine this summer.
#Lockdown, but not out
A victim of the lockdown, Barbara Magrath has had to close her shop and studio and embrace the online world
Shock😯😕 horror😲Covid😷💉
There is a world of meaning in those little smiley faces …
New prize to celebrate and advance art in Africa
A new competition, to be showcased at Norval, will celebrate African art and raise funds to assist disadvantaged children using the therapeutic benefits of art. What is not to love?!
Caster Semenya is not to compete allowed but …
Caster Semenya, a lifelong woman who refuses to take medication to alter her naturally occurring high testosterone levels, is not allowed to take part in the Tokyo Olympics, although Laurel Hubbard, who was born a man, will compete as a member of New Zealand’s weightlifting team
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SA sports stars sneak into Tokyo disguised as park rangers
Team SA’s outfits for the opening ceremony of the Olympics brought to mind an outing of the Voortrekker Youth …
Begging for help to end the taxi wars
Being shot at, walking for miles and miles in the cold, losing their income: Horrified commuters ask: Where are the police? Where is the Army? Where are our leaders?
Violence in SA: an uprising of elites, not of the people
Blaming the poor for the recent violence is quite a typical response in our half-baked democracy, where all the old power structures and networks and etc remain intact
Postcards from the edgy
A shocker of a week for some of us, but probably just another bleak and brutal week for most South Africans.
Last call for the Trolley Dollies at Gate 69
The Trolley Dollies ending their 5-year residency at Gate 69 with a final show
Bush life: delicious without the human beastliness
A few days in Kruger … enough said …
Being homeless is not a crime
Please sign the petition to stop the criminalisation of homelessness in Cape Town
A beauty, rain or shine
Thinking of Staycationing this year? Look no further than Cape Town! What a dreamy city, even if you live here. The love affair keeps surprising me
A South African summer at the Serpentine
Everywhere you look, there is a new power emerging, a more feminine, less prescriptive force. It presumes less and knows more … So too at the Serpentine this summer.
#Lockdown, but not out
A victim of the lockdown, Barbara Magrath has had to close her shop and studio and embrace the online world
Shock😯😕 horror😲Covid😷💉
There is a world of meaning in those little smiley faces …
New prize to celebrate and advance art in Africa
A new competition, to be showcased at Norval, will celebrate African art and raise funds to assist disadvantaged children using the therapeutic benefits of art. What is not to love?!
Caster Semenya is not to compete allowed but …
Caster Semenya, a lifelong woman who refuses to take medication to alter her naturally occurring high testosterone levels, is not allowed to take part in the Tokyo Olympics, although Laurel Hubbard, who was born a man, will compete as a member of New Zealand’s weightlifting team
Level 4: what you need to know
Breakdown of what adjusted Level 4 lockdown, announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday June 27, means (with thanks to the National Department of Health)
Water fight in the Sahel
With Cape Town’s severe drought in mind it is alarming to read in this article from The Conversation about the apparently outsized role of foreign private sector players in discussions over possible responses to the crisis at Lake Chad, including a proposal to divert water from the Congo River
Making condoms cool #YouthMonth
Wrapping it in rap … the latest efforts to get young people to condomise include the recording a rap song
The year when everything changed
There is no doubt the pandemic has caused immeasurable suffering but it has also created a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reset our lives and set our societies on to a sustainable path
Current Affairs
SA sports stars sneak into Tokyo disguised as park rangers
Team SA’s outfits for the opening ceremony of the Olympics brought to mind an outing of the Voortrekker Youth …
Begging for help to end the taxi wars
Being shot at, walking for miles and miles in the cold, losing their income: Horrified commuters ask: Where are the police? Where is the Army? Where are our leaders?
Violence in SA: an uprising of elites, not of the people
Blaming the poor for the recent violence is quite a typical response in our half-baked democracy, where all the old power structures and networks and etc remain intact
Food & Drink
A tale of two cities
Goodbye Camps Bay, hallo Church Square, where fine food and gracious hospitality trump great views and airbrushed people
Feasting in the Mother City
The food scene in Cape Town is fun and serious, delicious and surprising, comforting and challenging … it is life itself!
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.
Health
Making condoms cool #YouthMonth
Wrapping it in rap … the latest efforts to get young people to condomise include the recording a rap song
‘Thanks for telling me I’m obese’, a not-so-fun return to the gym
A trip to a new gym can be so humiliating … even for a gym bunny … as the co-founder of a new fitness app discovered recently. Fortunately there are other ways to get fit
Vaccines are on the way!
Adrian Gore gives Discovery members a very reassuring update on vaccine rollout in SA
Vaccess: a new kind of inequality
I hate it when I am in the line that doesn’t seem to be moving
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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