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
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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.
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
Heartbreak for the Baxter …
I wanted to share this thoughtful and hopeful note from the Baxter CEO, who is also a creator of sensational theatre. We can only hope the latest tightening of lockdown regulations will not mean too many seats must be refunded (indoor gathering limit reduced from 250 to 100). But seriously, look at this line-up … everyone involved deserves a medal
#Lockdown, but not out
A victim of the lockdown, Barbara Magrath has had to close her shop and studio and embrace the online world
Making condoms cool #YouthMonth
Wrapping it in rap … the latest efforts to get young people to condomise include the recording a rap song
The blockchain beyond Bitcoin
The frenzy and the greed around crypto currencies has almost entirely obscured the unique features of blockchain technology that can improve the lives of people and business outcomes
Artscape has come a long way in 50 years
Theatre opened as the Nico Malan in 1971 for whites only
Ballet, like history, is in new hands
Cape Town-born, London-based dancer and choreographer Mthuthuzeli November’s Ingoma fuses ballet with African song and dance in a compelling portrayal of the passion, the grief and the loss of the men, women and children caught up in the 1946 Witwatersrand miners’ strike.
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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.
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
Heartbreak for the Baxter …
I wanted to share this thoughtful and hopeful note from the Baxter CEO, who is also a creator of sensational theatre. We can only hope the latest tightening of lockdown regulations will not mean too many seats must be refunded (indoor gathering limit reduced from 250 to 100). But seriously, look at this line-up … everyone involved deserves a medal
#Lockdown, but not out
A victim of the lockdown, Barbara Magrath has had to close her shop and studio and embrace the online world
Making condoms cool #YouthMonth
Wrapping it in rap … the latest efforts to get young people to condomise include the recording a rap song
The blockchain beyond Bitcoin
The frenzy and the greed around crypto currencies has almost entirely obscured the unique features of blockchain technology that can improve the lives of people and business outcomes
Artscape has come a long way in 50 years
Theatre opened as the Nico Malan in 1971 for whites only
Ballet, like history, is in new hands
Cape Town-born, London-based dancer and choreographer Mthuthuzeli November’s Ingoma fuses ballet with African song and dance in a compelling portrayal of the passion, the grief and the loss of the men, women and children caught up in the 1946 Witwatersrand miners’ strike.
Q, queue, cue, question (?)
Who remembers April 1994? In SA or Rwanda? As Israel hammers Gaza, now is the time to go see Alfredo Jaar’s Rwanda Project at Zeitz Mocaa, says Alex Dodd. Hurry! It closes on May 23
‘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
A SpACE Time Continuum, interrupted
The Insider’s Insider at Daily Maverick on why we all need to pick a side … and put some money behind it if we can, just a couple of hundred rand even
Shed the black, Deer Park Café is coming back
The beloved café is delivering meals in tiffin tins to keep the wolves from the door while the site on the slopes of the mountain is being redeveloped
Who wants to be Mum’s favourite?
A Mother’s Day gift fit for your original first lady
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
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
Current Affairs
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.
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
The blockchain beyond Bitcoin
The frenzy and the greed around crypto currencies has almost entirely obscured the unique features of blockchain technology that can improve the lives of people and business outcomes
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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