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Lizette Louw

Lizette Louw is a South African storyteller and globe-trotting gypsy. You can follow her blog and read about her upcoming book on her website, Manouchery.me

Posted inGeneral, Lifestyle, Media, News/Politics, Tech

Mum and the stolen iPhone – iRest my case

by Lizette Louw 26 February 20154 March 2015

(Continued from here) What I know is this: on January 12 2015 my friend the Diplomat left his iPhone unattended for five minutes, someone nicked the phone and a week later the “new owner” replaced the phone’s cloud data with his own phone book. Whoever is now in the possession of the phone has a […]

Posted inEnvironment, Lifestyle, News/Politics, Tech

Mum and the stolen iPhone

by Lizette Louw 19 February 2015

Over the weekend I met up with my friend the Diplomat and he presented me with an opportunity that I could not resist. We had not chatted since December when he spent his holidays in Cape Town and it was time to catch up. Although his time in the Mother city delivered on all the […]

Posted inGeneral, Health, Lifestyle

How to survive dinner party small talk

by Lizette Louw 10 February 2015

If you or anyone close to you has ever made the big move of relocating between the Cape and Gauteng you are probably aware of the stereotypes around their divergent social cultures. Residents of the northern twin cities, after moving south, often describe the social scene in their new home town as clique, and the […]

Posted inEquality, News/Politics

Klein Karoo National Arts Festival: Close, but no cigar

by Lizette Louw 28 January 201510 February 2015

Just before the weekend I learned that the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) had recently posted a Facebook statement informing the public that Steve Hofmeyr would not be performing at this year’s festival. The post continued to say that Hofmeyr had not, in fact, applied to participate, but that even if he had, the […]

Posted inEquality

If you’re racist and proud of it, try this on for size

by Lizette Louw 21 January 201528 January 2015

Right, here it is, I’m issuing an acknowledgment of defeat – arguing with you on the rights or wrongs of racism has gotten us nowhere and so I am withdrawing from the discussion. Both of us have clearly remained unswayed in our opinions and are standing ever firmly in our convictions. Maybe we have just […]

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