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.
Articles By This Author
No sex and Christmas etiquette
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
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
How might we remember the days of plunder?
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
Sisters could do it for themselves
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
Liberal pushback now
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
Groundhog Days
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