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Ishay Govender

Ishay Govender is an award-winning journalist and cookbook author who wisely abandoned a career in commercial law in the pursuit of stories from kitchens and marginalised communities near and far. She is the founder of www.sapoctable.com, an empowerment network that assists people of colour in the food, beverage and related creative fields in South Africa and across Africa.

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Cooking up resilience in our unjust world

by Ishay Govender 18 February 202118 February 2021

Small acts of resistance and reinvention may be our most significant victories yet

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Giving thanks in trying times

by Ishay Govender 27 November 202028 November 2020

Nothing is quite as it seems, some things are a shell of their former selves. And that’s just the cheesecake

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