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Due to an increasing number of fascinating contributions from Safreans, we have decided to divide our weekly newsletters into two weekly newsletters: a newsy and business-like Monday edition, and a more breezy and weekend-y Friday edition. So here goes.. with our theme of Heritage and Spring (with September being both), there is lots here to chew on.
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This infrared image by Marinda Louw was taken at the Genadendal Mission Station near Greyton in the Overberg. The photo is part of a series of images about this historical village. Infrared photography demands a keen eye for textures and light as well as specially-adapted equipment.
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Sultry scents of Springtime - The science of perfume
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How do you choose a perfume? Why does the same perfume smell different on different people? Fatima Khan investigates.
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Iconic South African heritage buildings and sites
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Owning a heritage property means owning a valuable and sentimental South African artefact – both aesthetically pleasing and with a rich historical story attached to it.
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Mix: a bit of this and a little of that
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. Francis of Assisi
A comment on what it means to be mixed race in South Africa as we celebrate heritage day - all too often without a concept that many of us enjoy mixed heritage
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Humankind has always had a penchant for gold. It’s actually a fever, gold fever, striking down all those with the indescribable urge for quick riches. Up north in the Limpopo province are the remains of South Africa’s first gold-mining company.
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Followers and not leaders are change makers
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MORE than ever before within South Africa’s chequered history from its controversial colonial-apartheid past to a present-day democratic state - particularly the country’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic - there is a clarion call for strident leaders to step up to the plate and inspire new confidence in their followers. Pete Laburn, founder of Lead with Humanity, an organisation that …
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It is frightening how little has changed
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Republished with kind permission of Cape Community Newspapers On April 8 2015, I penned in this column a piece titled “Ill fares the land”. The title was not mine. I borrowed it from one of the last books published by noted public intellectual, Tony Judt, just six months before his untimely death on August 6, 2010. In chapter one of …
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Is it a murder mystery or a courtroom drama? Or both? Or neither?
The moral dilemmas posed in Defending Jacob linger long after the final frame.
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MOTHER EARTH OWNS THE TITLE DEEDS
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By Melody Emmett I had the honour of going on retreat with Mandaza Kandemwa last year. The retreat was held at the Buddhist retreat centre, Dharmagiri, which is set in a majestically beautiful part of the Southern Drakensberg on the border of Lesotho. When Dharmagri co-founder, Thanissara Weinberg, met Mandaza at a conference in Botswana, she realised that "he brought …
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Society's Rotting Core – By Vaughan Jones.
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Societal values change ever more rapidly as stress and pressures increase, and lifestyle changes accordingly only because we seemingly choose to take part in it and to live it. Many philosophers, like Plato, believe that the state of our life in this world is as it is because of humankind's collective intent for it to be so. This may seem strange, but it may well be true.
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Two self-published, South African women's books? Perfect for lockdown reading - plus hear their thoughts on self-publishing
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Puppy socialisation - what it is, why it is essential, and how to do it
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Socialisation is the training technique of introducing and familiarising a dog to new experiences, including people, places, objects, and other animals in ways that help the dog learn how to respond to and interact with these experiences appropriately and without fear.
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Heritage is a wonderful catchphrase for all sorts of amazing things done in the name of culture. Some good, some not-so-good.
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