Paddi Clay
Paddi Clay spent 40 years in journalism, as a reporter and consultant, manager, editor and trainer in radio, print and online. She was a correspondent for foreign networks during the 80s and 90s and, more recently, a judge on the Alan Paton Book Awards. She has an MA in Digital Journalism Leadership and received the Vodacom National Columnist award in 2007. Now retired she feels she has earned the right to indulge in her hobbies of politics, history, the arts, popular culture and good food. She values curiosity, humour, and freedom of speech, opinion and choice.
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Pressure-cooker politics
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
Fighting the Black Dog
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
A series in search of an ending
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.
Heed Cromwell: ‘In the name of God, go, ANC!’
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
The new moralists or O tempora, o mores
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
Of Toxic Women and Toxic Men
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
Power’s on and the living is easy
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
A woman’s home is her castle
On ‘Spring’ day this year the pupils of Alexandra High School in Gauteng celebrated by throwing chairs about and spraying fire extinguishers all over the
Trust in the future
Raymond Aron, French intellectual and the author of Opium of the Intellectuals, believed politics rather than revolution was the way to change society for the betterment of all. He
Desperately seeking sunshine
When things got really tough for ordinary citizens a few weeks ago, when the weather boffins were giving Johannesburg a bone-chilling outlook of at least