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.
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Trust in the future
- By Paddi Clay
- . Aug 7, 2022
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
- By Paddi Clay
- . Jul 5, 2022
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
- By Paddi Clay
- . Jun 5, 2022
‘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
- By Paddi Clay
- . May 8, 2022
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
- By Paddi Clay
- . Apr 3, 2022
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
- By Paddi Clay
- . Mar 8, 2022
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’
- By Paddi Clay
- . Jan 30, 2022
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
- By Paddi Clay
- . Jan 2, 2022
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
The Big Job
- By Paddi Clay
- . Dec 5, 2021
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
A luta continua
- By Paddi Clay
- . Nov 7, 2021
The people have spoken – or, to be more accurate, 12 million of the 40 million or so South Africans eligible to vote have spoken.