A Life of Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth

Danger permeates all spheres of women’s lives in South Africa. For that reason, women have lost their freedom to be.
The Chicken that Could

In our regular column featuring the world of media and marketing, Niki Moore talks to CEO of Professional Evaluation and Research, Shanaaz Nel, about a very successful, very South African, marketing campaign
Homebrew Reloaded

Making your own alcohol is not for sissies, as Niki Moore discovers. Sometimes your concoction fights back.
The Idiomatic State of the World – In a Figure of Speech

The world population shaken clean,
WHO cries wolf with Covid Nineteen.
Mission impossible to heal, they cry,
If ever to reach the pie in the sky.
Wild, weird and wonderful

Words cannot describe the spectacle of wildflowers that flourish every year on the West Coast and Namaqualand. Photographs give an idea, but you have to visit there to be caressed by soft air, to smell the earth and sea, feel the sun’s warmth, the silkiness of the petals, the lustre of the blooms.
This is a wish-list item that reminds us how magnificent nature can be…