Is there such a thing as dijo tsa makgowa and black people’s food? How traumas, insecurities, childhood doctrines and more influence what, how and when we eat
Food
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How to share a karmenaadjie
An Afrikaner living abroad finds a trip home sets loose thoughts about land, farming, killing and sharing
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Cooking up resilience in our unjust world
Small acts of resistance and reinvention may be our most significant victories yet
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Giving thanks in trying times
Nothing is quite as it seems, some things are a shell of their former selves. And that’s just the cheesecake
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Taste, power and distinction: Politics on a plate
From an early age, I have viscerally known that lack of food was neither just nor fair
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Botanical gardens re-imagined go beyond simply displaying plants
Covid-19 and its socioeconomic consequences has emphasised people’s need for these places: research, biodiversity conservation, plants for food, health and cultural purposes, and open space in congested urban settings
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Education policy and the future of water
On Tuesday, I watched a video on the deteriorating water situation in the Arabic state of Jordan, which foregrounded to me the imperative, that countries give a central place to essential concerns such as the continued availability of water in their education programmes, from primary school through high school to universities. Unless they pay urgent […]
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Umngqusho, koeksisters and defining South African culture
Being a vegetarian I never imagined that I would find myself (happily) plating 12 dishes of a braised sheep’s head and fried chicken feet. But these are the kinds of delicacies you end up serving if you’re ever tasked with showcasing South African food. “Smileys” and “walkie talkies” are what they’re called in Khayelitsha, where […]
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Going green in 2012: 12 steps for the developing world
Many of us are thinking about the changes we want to make this year. For some, these changes will be financial; for others, physical or spiritual. But for all of us, there are important resolutions we can make to “green” our lives. Although this is often a subject focused on by industrialised nations, people in […]