Paddi Clay
Paddi Clay has spent over 45 years in journalism, as a reporter and consultant, manager, editor and trainer in radio, print and online. She was a correspondent for foreign radio networks during the 80s and 90s, has an MA in Digital Journalism Leadership and received the Vodacom National Columnist award in 2007. She spent much of the later part of her career mentoring journalists. Now free to voice her opinions on politics and be an activist,she reads fact as well as fiction, indulges the family dogs, and channels her inner Nigella in the kitchen of her leafy suburban home acquired through hard work not privilege. She values curiosity, humour, and freedom of speech, opinion and choice but has little tolerance for the grossly ignorant encountered on WA groups or X and resents spending time trying to sort out her Johannesburg council billing every month.
Articles By This Author
Standing up to Goliath
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
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