Lifestyle

What happens if you take a writer, a photographer and an artist, give them 30 days and set them free in the inner city of Durban? Along the Way: 10 lives, 10 portraits. An intimate book of photographic portraits and stories from 10 different people living in Durban. From a priest to a retired whaler, […]

The idea for this blog hit me as I sat catching up on my emails at an internet café somewhere in Roodepoort a few weeks ago. For some weird reason I found myself rubbing my hands in glee at the mere thought that I was reading my emails from someone else’s PC. I know; this […]

This seems to be the week of effusive praise. Have you watched Boston Legal? If not, may I suggest putting your computer to sleep (it’s environmentally friendlier) and heading down to your local DVD store to hire a series of it? Guaranteed, you won’t be able to do anything but watch it (and laugh, snort […]

* Not for sale to persons under the age of 18 * There has never been a more redundant piece of small print than the one stated above and which forms a neglected part of the artwork panels for labels of alcoholic beverages in marketing-agency work-boards the country over. Now, obviously bored, the ANCYL leadership […]

I spent most of yesterday milling around with the many thousands of other people who turned up en masse for the Cape Town leg of My Coke Fest. How was it? In a word, fantastic. Here’s why: I’ve been to many a music festival and although I love them, they’re usually a tad exhausting because […]

Vegetarians throughout the land will be sharpening their carrots on reading what I’m about to write, but in the interests of levity I have to own up to my one acknowledged prejudice: no, not vegetarians, but vegetarianism. There is a difference. Many vegetarians do not make much of an “ism” of their chosen diet. They […]

Have you noticed that most people are rather grumpy this week? I think it’s the knowledge that there’s an impending four days of freedom, but before we get there we have to climb through a mountain of work, more than usual because of said freedom. Also, naturally, because everyone’s wondering if the Easter Bunny will […]

This Friday, March 21, is special not only because it is both Human Rights Day and Good Friday, but also because it has significance in a range of different religions. Human Rights Day is the day on which South Africans celebrate the Bill of Rights contained in the Constitution. Initially March 21 was known as […]

I need to get more sleep. A smiling doctor in a white coat, with pens in his pocket and a clipboard, informed me of this yesterday evening while I was doodling around on the internet waiting for an email. His picture appeared next to a chart with the title “How much sleep you need — […]

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece entitled “Of racists, kaffirs and coconuts” in which I wondered out loud if such a thing as a kaffir actually existed. That was at the height of the “Khoza fingers the kaffir” row. In that piece, I promised that I would return to the subject to complete […]