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Formal employment is not something to be sneezed at. For starters, there’s the near-certainty of a salary hitting your bank […]

“… there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” I’m sure I wouldn’t be alone in

My evening engagement last night was a dinner at Sidedish (Rose Street, Bo-Kaap). I was already committed to taking a

The world’s economy got into a mess as a result of gorging on cheap credit. Thus far, the only solution

It is easy for cynics to question the efficacy of gatherings such as the recent G20 summit. Certainly, the summit’s

Benoît Mandelbrot, who died recently, is the mathematician who invented fractal geometry. His work, which covered a wide variety of

I emerged from my shower this morning to find three Egyptian Geese paddling around our swimming pool, where they were

My waste-not-want-not grandmother (read more about her here) would have been delighted with the dinner I cooked last night. The

Heritage Day is one of South Africa’s ‘new’ public holidays, in that it was introduced after 1994. Unlike Youth Day

It sometimes amazes me how long it takes for things to happen. Often, it’s not through lack of effort or