Paddi Clay

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

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

As I passed through Rosebank, Johannesburg last week heading for my optician, I noticed a new shop:, Kentucky Town. It was a KFC pop up

The people have spoken – or, to be more accurate, 12 million of the 40 million or so South Africans eligible to vote have spoken.

Personally, I had planned to have a long-overdue pedicure, to finish John Boyne’s latest novel The Echo Chamber (a sharp and enjoyable comedy of manners

“This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world. And oh, it’s…burning, oh, four or five hundred feet into the sky. It’s a terrific crash,

The swirling zeitgeist of excuses, postponements, delays, denials and ‘I didn’t know’s from the top of the greasy political pole these past weeks came close

In the Netflix documentary that is bound to be made sometime in the future on what is South Africa’s most cataclysmic post-apartheid political event, the

Some snippets this week from the world of journalism unleashed a storm of accusations, lamentation on declining standards, and in a surprising twist, admiration for

As I said to Husband Number 2 on Tuesday night, it’s your turn. He went into the kitchen to prepare supper while I reclined on