Goodbye Camps Bay, hallo Church Square, where fine food and gracious hospitality trump great views and airbrushed people
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Hoping for healing after the fire
The Rhodes Memorial fire reminds us that homelessness in our city is all of our problem … and how keeping the mountain clear of invasive alien trees can help manage fires
Vaccines are on the way!
Adrian Gore gives Discovery members a very reassuring update on vaccine rollout in SA
#Lockdown, but not out
A victim of the lockdown, Barbara Magrath has had to close her shop and studio and embrace the online world
Ramadan in a time of lockdown
Midway through Ramadan in 2020, Fahiem Stellenboom took us on a journey from District Six in the Sixties to Lockdown
There has always been drama at Suez
The history of the Suez Canal, a shipping route carved through the desert, is a tale of one of massive disruption after another
Gods, goddesses, classic pop, Eros is anything but a drag
The Trolley Dollies of Gate 69 take Get Up, Dress Up and Show Up to a new level
A little lockdown antidote at the Raptor Room
A clutch of courageous, outrageous drag queens reminded us of how pride and prejudice can rub up against each other and create fireworks.
Nobody is trying to steal emigrants’ retirement savings
Outcry over government ‘trying to steal emigrants’ retirement savings’ is total BS. Did anyone mention that reforms are part of moves to dismantle SA’s hated exchange control system
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A tale of two cities
Goodbye Camps Bay, hallo Church Square, where fine food and gracious hospitality trump great views and airbrushed people
Hoping for healing after the fire
The Rhodes Memorial fire reminds us that homelessness in our city is all of our problem … and how keeping the mountain clear of invasive alien trees can help manage fires
Vaccines are on the way!
Adrian Gore gives Discovery members a very reassuring update on vaccine rollout in SA
#Lockdown, but not out
A victim of the lockdown, Barbara Magrath has had to close her shop and studio and embrace the online world
Ramadan in a time of lockdown
Midway through Ramadan in 2020, Fahiem Stellenboom took us on a journey from District Six in the Sixties to Lockdown
There has always been drama at Suez
The history of the Suez Canal, a shipping route carved through the desert, is a tale of one of massive disruption after another
Gods, goddesses, classic pop, Eros is anything but a drag
The Trolley Dollies of Gate 69 take Get Up, Dress Up and Show Up to a new level
A little lockdown antidote at the Raptor Room
A clutch of courageous, outrageous drag queens reminded us of how pride and prejudice can rub up against each other and create fireworks.
Nobody is trying to steal emigrants’ retirement savings
Outcry over government ‘trying to steal emigrants’ retirement savings’ is total BS. Did anyone mention that reforms are part of moves to dismantle SA’s hated exchange control system
Making some noise about SA’s silent killer
TB HIV Care is always finding novel ways to raise the alarm about TB, the curable disease that has been the leading cause of death in
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Women on top
Tanzania’s new president, Samia Hassan, is a far cry from the previous incumbent. She is described as compassionate, rational and calm
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!
Vaccess: a new kind of inequality
I hate it when I am in the line that doesn’t seem to be moving
The Fugard. The End
The Fugard Theatre joins a list of things we have lost to the damned plague
Women on top
Here’s hoping that Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s appointment as DG of the WTO signals the beginning of something new … dare we say it … a more female future
10X is one to watch even as CEO exits
All eyes on industry disruptor as founder exits. Will new majority shareholders 10X 10X?
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
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Making some noise about SA’s silent killer
TB HIV Care is always finding novel ways to raise the alarm about TB, the curable disease that has been the leading cause of death in
Continue Reading
Women on top
Tanzania’s new president, Samia Hassan, is a far cry from the previous incumbent. She is described as compassionate, rational and calm
Women on top
Here’s hoping that Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s appointment as DG of the WTO signals the beginning of something new … dare we say it … a more female future
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
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
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!
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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