Paddi Clay

Renovate, renew, repair, restore, revive, reinvigorate:  President Cyril Ramaphosa and Secretary-General of the African National Congress, Fikile Mbalula, are flinging these verbs about as if

You’d be hard pushed to find anyone in the developed world today, no matter how libertarian or how entranced by the polemics of Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society,

Anger is a negative, strong emotion. If you Google or Bing it, you will see few words in its favour. It can lead to genocide

My mother had a pressure cooker, the air fryer of its day. It was a boon to working women. It rendered tough meat tender, stewed

When we have got through this muddled, chaotic period in the life of our country, where the black dog of depression is running wild, I

Staying with friends in Cape Town, I did not have to rush around the house sealing fridges or switching off appliances prior to load shedding.

In 1653, controversial English statesman Oliver Cromwell scathingly dismissed the minimalist parliament he’d established to draft election plans for a new reformed parliament, which included

Once upon a time (actually about the same time a certain Panel was delivering a finding that would cause some ‘rep en roer’, some unexpected

It may surprise you, although if you are a liberal it should not, that although I am a feminist I don’t hold with the romantic

This day I sit down to write is different to all other days of the preceding weeks. It is the first day in a very