I am just back from my first visit to Nude Foods, the grocery store we have all been waiting for! I do mean all of us.
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AuthorCapo Cassidy
Results519Am I beautiful? Oh yes I am!
What a treat to see Zanele Muholi profiled in the Weekend FT. It brought to mind my first encounter with the riveting work of
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Very familiar and completely vreemd
How I wished I didn’t have to read the surtitles in Moedertaal. Whenever I listened to the Afrikaans words spoken by Sandra Prinsloo I understood snatches
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Spekbombing and other suburban dreams
As the windy season gets underway in the Cape of Hope and Storms we sit on a couple of ticking timebombs, one of them a natural
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Pleasing to the mind, the body and the soul
If it feels too good to be true, it probably is, the saying goes. Too good to be true = couldn’t be better … or could
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Swing into spring in downtown Cape Town
Gangsters and their molls, bootleggers, poets and playwrights, flappers and assorted dandies … just another night at your favourite tavern in town, you might think, but
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Give reality the slip at the Wild Coast
The more things have changed the more they have stayed the same since the days when it was one of ‘Sun King’ Sol Kerzner’s original palaces of relaxation and fun in the nominally
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Dump maths? Sounds like a race to the bottom
10X Investments called on South Africa’s Department of Basic Education this week to reconsider the “potentially catastrophic proposal” to remove mathematics as a pass requirement in
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Lest we forget …
Cheers to Sarajevo, which is showing at the Alexander Bar until Saturday July 8, is one of those universal stories about people who are not supposed
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The normalisation of madness
A number of insights during a debate at the University of Cape Town – Betrayal of the Promise: Understanding South Africa’s Political Crisis – came from
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