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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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Restaurant Blues
- By Paddi Clay
- . Jan 31, 2021
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
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‘Holding out for a Hero’
- By Paddi Clay
- . Jan 3, 2021
The trouble with lockdown, virus mutations, waves of infection – this whole pandemic thing with its highs of family bonding and health worker dedication and
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No sex and Christmas etiquette
- By Paddi Clay
- . Dec 6, 2020
Everyone seems quick to share intimate or traumatic personal experiences or the nature of their sex lives these days, but I regret that, being of
Not all changes are good
- By Paddi Clay
- . Nov 7, 2020
Extraordinary. Fraught. Chaotic. Nail-biting. Volatile. Trump’s astonishing premature announcement of his win. His declaration that he would stop the counting. What a show. Barnum and
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Exodus
- By Paddi Clay
- . Oct 11, 2020
I took advantage of the easing of lockdown restrictions two weeks ago and headed off on holiday. Not that I’d been having such a bad
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Exodus
- By Paddi Clay
- . Oct 11, 2020
I took advantage of the easing of lockdown restrictions two weeks ago and headed off on holiday. Not that I’d been having such a bad
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How might we remember the days of plunder?
- By Paddi Clay
- . Sep 13, 2020
The Museum of Natural History in London is currently conducting an internal review of its displays and treatments of the work and specimens of that
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Sisters could do it for themselves
- By Paddi Clay
- . Aug 16, 2020
The long road South African women have travelled and still have before them, particularly on the social equality front, would have been a lot shorter
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Liberal pushback now
- By Paddi Clay
- . Jul 19, 2020
I’m a vulnerable so I’ve been at home, not even going out to shop, for even longer than the official lockdown. Despite a lurking fear
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Groundhog Days
- By Paddi Clay
- . Jun 21, 2020
Thirty years ago, while collecting interviews and sound for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news on the fringes of a stalemated Johannesburg protest, a member of the