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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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
Coalitions, councillors, and the electorate
‘Coalition country’ looks pretty uninspiring currently. A few announcements of improved systems, a round or two of pothole repairs, much ambitious, even grandiose planning. Someone
Perhaps it’s time to think deeply again
What fun and excitement we denizens of Twitter have been having with the richest man in the world buying the social media platform that many
Minority Report
Journalism training usually includes the injunction to not be afraid to ask for clarification when you are interviewing someone. If you as a reporter or
Not a nice war
I was in the middle of trying to unsubscribe to a wellness – or as they say in old parlance, a health and beauty –
Listening to the ‘lower class’
In Kathu in the Northern Cape on Tuesday last week, residents suffering from poverty, despondency and the debilitating scourge of helpless dependency, lined up to
Asteroids and Anxiety
Just when it appears we can perhaps breathe a little easier, literally, with the Covid-19 virus morphing into a less severe or lung-damaging, although still