The One Who Sings (formerly known as Zolani Mahola) telling her stories, singing her songs (and making us cry probably) in the garden at the Baxter. Blissss!
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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
Let’s be the generation …
Advice from a young investment expert: It is not that hard to live the life of your dreams
Budgetary can kicked down road
Enoch held Tito’s line, with flamboyance limited to metaphor and wardrobe, but the new guy has has nothing on the Avo King
Ballet for ballet’s sake (oh and rugby be damned)
You can turn your brain off for Alchemy at Artscape, every other part of you will be turned on
Offshore bulls feeling a bit bearish
If you have money to invest locally (in South Africa) you are spoilt for choice; not so much if you have taken all your money offshore
Omicron: 5 steps to avoid, 10 to take immediately
Would doctors and scientists ban travel or alcohol sales? Probably not, but they do have some ideas for combatting the newest known strain Of Covid19
White privilege
I cannot be blamed for the world I inherited but I sure as hell must take some responsibility for the one I pass on
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Full circle with ‘the one who sings’ … and writes and heals
The One Who Sings (formerly known as Zolani Mahola) telling her stories, singing her songs (and making us cry probably) in the garden at the Baxter. Blissss!
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
Let’s be the generation …
Advice from a young investment expert: It is not that hard to live the life of your dreams
Budgetary can kicked down road
Enoch held Tito’s line, with flamboyance limited to metaphor and wardrobe, but the new guy has has nothing on the Avo King
Ballet for ballet’s sake (oh and rugby be damned)
You can turn your brain off for Alchemy at Artscape, every other part of you will be turned on
Offshore bulls feeling a bit bearish
If you have money to invest locally (in South Africa) you are spoilt for choice; not so much if you have taken all your money offshore
Omicron: 5 steps to avoid, 10 to take immediately
Would doctors and scientists ban travel or alcohol sales? Probably not, but they do have some ideas for combatting the newest known strain Of Covid19
White privilege
I cannot be blamed for the world I inherited but I sure as hell must take some responsibility for the one I pass on
Helping Africa to feed itself (and the world)
Technology, skills and finance that will end hunger on the continent and well beyond
Reminds me of ballet/life BC
Cape Town City Ballet’s new show promises a return to the gorgeous sensual past when we all felt so very alive
Saved by small acts of kindness
A book of 50 stories reminds us that in the worst of times so many South Africans are the best of people
A delicious one night stand with the Test Kitchen
I am told that this should have an age-restriction. If you can’t handle a little food porn turn away now. Our little fling with the Test Kitchen, a story written by us and for us … never to be repeated
U=U brings an Aids-free world into sight
Overwhelming evidence is causing a cultural shift in HIV prevention
9/11: the story of the remains of the World Trade Center
Melted computers, corroded steel, broken glass, ash, dust, pulverised concrete, cellulose, asbestos, lead and mercury … and the bodies of the beloved
Bark stripping in Newlands Forest
Being very low in nutrients, bark has no real value, except to trees. (Like rhino horn really). We have to find a solution (for the people and the trees)
There is nothing dodgy about tax on SA emigrants’ pensions
Emigrants are getting access to their savings a lot earlier than those of us who choose to stay
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Omicron: 5 steps to avoid, 10 to take immediately
Would doctors and scientists ban travel or alcohol sales? Probably not, but they do have some ideas for combatting the newest known strain Of Covid19
Budgetary can kicked down road
Enoch held Tito’s line, with flamboyance limited to metaphor and wardrobe, but the new guy has has nothing on the Avo King
White privilege
I cannot be blamed for the world I inherited but I sure as hell must take some responsibility for the one I pass on
Food & Drink
A delicious one night stand with the Test Kitchen
I am told that this should have an age-restriction. If you can’t handle a little food porn turn away now. Our little fling with the Test Kitchen, a story written by us and for us … never to be repeated
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
Health
U=U brings an Aids-free world into sight
Overwhelming evidence is causing a cultural shift in HIV prevention
Covid-19’s ‘devastating impact’ on HIV, TB, malaria programmes
Still, the Global Fund says, ‘the pandemic presents us with a chance to build a better, more equitable and healthier world’
Learning to live with the plague
As it becomes accepted that herd immunity is not going to happen, at least not in our lifetimes, the focus turns to learning to live with Covid-19
Swimming: the fountain of youth
Apparently scientists are trying to work out what swimming’s ‘secret sauce’ is. Good luck to them because magic usually defies description
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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