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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Oh the humanity (12th September 2021)
“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 Ideal and the Actual
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
Brinkmanship
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
‘Journalism as a form of (dis)honourable behaviour’
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
Reality jab on the vaccination front line
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
28 years later
The new normal in South Africa is worrying. It’s what nightmares and post-apocalypse movies are made of and it has very little to do with
Optimistic Moves
What a week. We moved. Talk about stress. The upheaval took me off social media (mainly because South African providers are so hampered by bureaucracy
Hurry up and wait
You can almost bet on it. The minute there’s a rash of renaming some new government corruption scandal will come to light. So it came
Restaurant Blues
Let me describe my most recent meltdown. I am at the stove cooking. I reach out for the white wine to add a splash of
‘Holding out for a Hero’
The trouble with lockdown, virus mutations, waves of infection – this whole pandemic thing with its highs of family bonding and health worker dedication and