September 2010

Celebrating Heritage Day

24 September 2010

Heritage Day is one of South Africa’s ‘new’ public holidays, in that it was introduced after 1994. Unlike Youth Day and Women’s Day, there isn’t an overt political value to the day, but it does happen to fall on the same date as Shaka Day was celebrated in Kwazulu Natal. I’m sure there was a [...]

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Become a Culinary Legend

22 September 2010

It sometimes amazes me how long it takes for things to happen. Often, it’s not through lack of effort or caring; stuff just has to go through a process. This is especially true when there are many people making contributions to the project. A case in point is Dishfoodmarket.com, for which the idea first presented [...]

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Fighting off Mosquitoes

14 September 2010

I’ve never spent a night counting the number of mosquitoes whining their high-pitched way around my bedroom, nor do I keep a record of the number of mosquito-free nights per year. But, I have a feeling that mosquitoes have been with us almost all the way through winter. That, for Cape Town, is an unusual [...]

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The Last Resort

8 September 2010

I have to admit to having been very reluctant to start reading The Last Resort, Douglas Roger’s family-based account of the crisis in Zimbabwe (or Zimbodia, as a Sunday Times satirist calls it). By default, any white person in Zimbabwe (especially an exile), is a victim, and there are only so many victim stories one [...]

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Post Office Dreams

7 September 2010

I can’t say I’ve ever thought of myself as a Post Office kind of guy. In my aspirations – and very, very occasionally in real life – I dine at Michelin-starred restaurants, buy my shirts at Ted Baker, make my travel bookings online, avoid fast food and generally live a privileged life. No, the South [...]

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