Lifestyle

By Lemos Magule* with Fed Katerere My name is Lemos Magule and I am a 50-year-old man living in Chimoio, Mozambique’s fourth largest city. For the past seven years I have been living as a bachelor after two failed relationships. My first wife, Lucia* and I married under customary law when I was 20 years […]

The other day I picked up another lanyard. It’s in a restrained and tasteful shade of khaki and branded Land Rover, and it will come in very handy in my ongoing quest to stop myself from losing things like keys and cameras and gate remotes. Lanyards are very useful for that sort of thing. It […]

By Zuki Mqolomba Truth be told, Khanyi Mbau’s narrative tells of our very own narrative. Her ideals reveal much of what now constitutes our national character, the new sets of value propositions that are now hegemonic in mainstream society. Indeed we are the lived expression of her spoken words. “Just because they can’t put bread […]

This afternoon I did something quite radical. It’s not the sort of thing I would usually do, not at all, but for some reason I flung caution to the light north-easterly breeze and went ahead anyway. This afternoon, I walked around outside, in daylight hours, without wearing a bra. It felt … wrong. Not only […]

I live just down the road from the Joburg Zoo. Close enough that on quiet nights you can sometimes hear the lions roar. At first the thought of lions caged-up in the city seemed sad; now I’m not so sure how I feel. Perhaps it’s because I like the thought of the pandemonium that would […]

“Let’s talk as painters,” he clasps my hand in a warm, knotted ham and we circle the room. He is hilarious, warm and furiously alive. Pausing at each picture; he animates — gestures uncommon of a man his age, swear words and spittle pass messages from fierce and funny blue eyes. An imperial under bite […]

Last week I received no less than three yellow faces. Up from zero the week before. If Yellow Face Fever is sweeping the country, shoot me now. Nothing brings an email to its knees like a grinning yellow idiot at the bottom of it. I really can’t understand why grown-ups who sit in air conditioned […]