A statement from Fikile Mbalula, South African Minister of Transport 15 January 2020 Prasa (the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa) has suffered blows from many
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AuthorCapo Cassidy
Results519A long love affair with trains
There is something so special about a long-distance train journey. You travel through so much more than geography. It feels like you can see time, the
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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
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Fabulous festive fun for the family
Cape Town City Ballet’s A Christmas Carol, The Story of Scrooge is excellent festive family fun, a classic-but-light lesson in the power of good over evil,
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Nik in full bloom after a little pruning
There is a reason that Nik Rabinowitz packs the house at the Baxter year after year. How we all love that hour or two of riotous
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We are all just hanging by a thread
Less than a week after hearing Zolani Mahola tell her very powerful and personal story, seeing An Extraordinarily Ordinary Life at Alexander Bar felt like paying
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Satori: a sudden enlightenment
Cape Town City Ballet’s appropriately (and rather deliciously) titled Satori certainly felt like enlightenment, if not so sudden. We have been watching this incredible transformation for
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It is my story … and it is yours, dammit!
The fact that we are still watching plays like Statements After An Arrest Under The Immorality Act, which is showing at the Fugard, is evidence of
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A feast of small tastes of life in parallel realities
shnit film festival: a feast of delicious tastes of parallel realities
Cadbury ‘donates’ words so elderly don’t suffer in silence
As 10X Investments’ new Retirement Reality Report (RRR19) issued South Africa with a rather bitter warning about the country’s looming retirement crisis, there is sweeter news
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