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There’s a virtual ring that runs around Vienna’s inner city reflecting where the Austrian empire’s rulers once held sway and where Hitler arrived to a tumultuous welcome from some 250 000 Austrians about 70 years ago. In relative terms, that was almost yesterday. Today, there is an art exhibition in the city called Restitution reflecting […]

There’s something about a song that can take you right back to a moment. Compared to photographs, which are often a disappointing record of a holiday, music can bring your holiday back to life years later. This is why one should spend at least as much time in selecting which music to take along as […]

I was on a sensitive mission as I snuck into my local Dis-Chem and whispered discretely into the ear of a store assistant. “Hey Vusi,” she shouted down the aisle filled with pre-Christmas shoppers, “show this gentleman the enema buckets”. Vusi bounded up to me with a glint in his eye, a skip in his […]

The Mongolian wind pierces your trousers; you feel your groin almost shrink to two raisins as you turn the corner into the knife-edge draught tearing through Huining Lu. In a blink you’re in 1950’s Shanghai. Feel the copperplate hues of the photograph you have walked into (image 6) * . Huining Lu: more authentic than […]

“YOU ARE AT a crossroads, Virgo, with tempting offers raining down on all sides. Yet Saturn, planet of materialism, keeps things constant, demanding you get qualified and hit the professional high road.” Yeah right. Horoscopes are amusing rubbish at the best of times, and this one, in the Sunday Life magazines that comes with the […]

Am I being unreasonable? Am I expecting too much from an expectant mother who is also a smoker? Should pregnant woman legally be allowed to smoke? I ask these questions because I am really at a loss. Where does one draw the line of between being a responsible citizen and condemning unethical behaviour and interfering […]