Lifestyle

Until very recently, I was ashamed of my cellphone. The iPhone I brought with me from Australia wouldn’t work here, so I was forced to use a Nokia 66somethingorother from 19voetsek. It was terrible. No ability to surf the web. No GPS. Clunky design. Terrible sound, so that I wondered whether I was going deaf […]

What do you get paid to do? Right now I get paid to watch movies. My wage works out to about R250 an hour for two hours to sit with a group of Chinese first-year university students and watch movies — usually of my choice as they forget to bring movies of their choice. The […]

I just figured out an embarrassing truth. I woke up with an enormous hangover/nausea today, Sunday, my first babbelas in a long time, but I think it was more the rich food (German eisbein and sausages, etc) that I pigged out on which was delivered to our home last night. My wife, Marion, went off to […]

Hi everyone. My name is Sarah, and I am a workaholic. This is nothing new; I always was a workaholic. My life and outlook always has been dominated entirely by the notion of Getting Things Done. Oh, there was the day job (which, in advertising, is frequently a night job too). I consider my books […]

By Errol Hendrickse The importance of looking good is becoming more prevalent in everyday life — the ever-expanding need to look sexier has even crossed over to the male of the species. So I would like to look at the age-old debate. Very much like: which came first, the chicken or the egg? My age-old […]

Car guard. Those two words and the encounters they imply elicit a maelstrom of knee-jerk responses in me, some of which negative and some, well, less negative. Fortuitously for purposes of my venting here, these responses appear to follow a fairly easy to map progression, in a fashion I liken to an inverted three-phase traffic […]

This all came about one day when I was sitting having lunch with my brother and sister. My sister had come down from Johannesburg and my brother from Knysna. It was great to see them again and I was aware that when they left to go back to their respective homes and families I was […]

Not because I don’t love it here, because I do, but because I’ve got itchy feet and I’m raring to travel. Around the world, in fact. For 9 months. Together with my partner, Mark Peddle, who is a photographer, I’m about to embark on a Round-the-World journey spreading positive diabetes awareness. I’m a type 1 […]

By Errol Hendrickse Throughout history the female form has been celebrated as the one of the most beautiful things: we have pagan rituals that pay homage to the wonder of femininity, Christian denominations that worship the mother of Christ, we call the very ground our food is grown from Mother Earth but yet today we […]

We must scrap the prohibition of prostitution, because it unfairly discriminates against women who demand their money upfront. We all, as stupid men, have had cause in our lives to wonder why the state of gender parity has changed so that women are now equal but such that the demands made by women upon men […]

Sometimes, reality satirises itself. I would like to share the following advertisement for Bronco toilet paper (“It’s a healthy sign when there’s a Bronco in the house”) that appeared in the Women’s Weekly issue of September 12 1959: “To the men in your life … some things are very important. Men liked being looked after […]