

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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Reality jab on the vaccination front line
- By Paddi Clay
- . May 23, 2021
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
- By Paddi Clay
- . Apr 25, 2021
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
- By Paddi Clay
- . Mar 28, 2021
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
- By Paddi Clay
- . Feb 28, 2021
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
- 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

‘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

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

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

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