Paddi Clay

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

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

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

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