Lifestyle

Submitted by Sean Lloyd Working in the eco-industry, I constantly stress about little things environment wise. Are my friends recycling? Are they using organic body-care products? Are their products local, and not imported? I wonder if that salad is organic? Do they even care? All these questions were piling up in my head late last […]

Convention is the way in which ingenuity is corralled. Doing what others expect is too often not doing what we need to do to succeed. We conform, we try to be good people, we’re nice and wonder why our spirit battles to breathe. It’s only when we do what we need to do and bugger […]

Well, there I was, back at the theatre with an open mind and two open eyes, scanning the crowd from the highest vantage point at the Baxter Theatre, when I stopped myself. “Tony,” I said, “You’re counting black people, for God’s sake”. Had it really come to this? People like my fellow Thought Leader blogger […]

The Easter weekend is coming up, and that means it’s time for music festivals. If you’re in KZN, or willing to travel there from wherever else you may be, you will be able to attend Splashy Fen, officially (apparently) the oldest music festival in the country. It turns 20 this year, and, if the universe […]

Sex always gets people talking, and Australia is no different. Over the past week, the media have buzzed with responses to the argument by sex therapist Bettina Arndt, who says that Australian women should have sex even when they don’t feel like it. (You can check out her website, which appears to have been inspired […]

“Change? I guess change is good for any of us … I ain’t mad at you, got nothing but love for you. Do ya thang boy!” The late, great Tupac Shakur. People sometimes feel the need for change; well they don’t feel it so much as it makes itself necessary for the individual’s happiness and […]

I just couldn’t figure out what to call a bakkie when I left SA to roam the world. I struggled to bring my tongue around words like UT, yoot, pick-up truck. A bakkie’s a bakkie, a naartjie a naartjie, a braai a braai, lekker is lekker, and, sexist version or otherwise, a doos is a […]

I’ve never really seen the point of bling. Of course, I have my wedding and engagement ring (which used to be two separate rings until a bee flew in through the window and stung the fourth finger of my left hand, causing it to swell grotesquely and forcing me to cut them off. Long story.) […]

At first, having returned to Cape Town after years away, I saw red when I saw all the white faces in restaurants and theatres. Where was the real change so many years after 1994? But then I read Sandile Memela’s diatribe against “white” theatre at the Cape, and I started to think. When Memela writes […]

I was really excited about Earth Hour this year. I’m a fan of all things that involve candlelight and helping the environment (especially when they’re as easy as switching off your lights for an hour) and I thought Cape Town would jump on the bandwagon. In fact, I was so certain that Cape Town would […]

The other day I was having a conversation with a friend in which he argued that most women don’t have a sense of humour, and few women are really funny. Which took me back somewhat, given that I’ve always thought that I am quite good at being funny, in conversation. If anything, I was a […]

I am of the opinion that you can tell a person’s character by the default homepage they keep. As your web browser increasingly assumes the role of a Third Eye, a bright, clear window that opens both into and out of your mind/soul, the opening landscape it captures both defines and shapes your persona. There […]