
Viv Vermaak
Viv Vermaak is an award-winning investigative journalist, writer and director. She was the most loved and hated presenter on South Africa’s iconic travel show, “Going Nowhere Slowly’ and ranks being the tall germ, “Terie’ in Mina Moo as a career highlight. She does Jiu-Jitsu and has a ’69 Chevy Impala called Katy Peri-Peri.
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South Africa: The curse of high expectations
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Jun 1, 2025
It is a story as old as humanity itself. Icarus burns his wings when he flies too close to the sun. Icarus didn’t fail –

“Feel terrible, eat less!” The Ozempic method?
- By Viv Vermaak
- . May 4, 2025
I am not morbidly obese. I am not anorexic. I am not bulimic. But I am a binge-eater, and I am sick and tired of

Strategies for a successful mission to the US
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Apr 13, 2025
In a recent interview with Biznews, Helen Zille suggested two qualities that would be needed when dealing with the US and Donald Trump: “keeping a

The fable of the cash cows
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Apr 6, 2025
Once upon a time, there were fields in which the cash cows grazed. The cows did not produce cash, but they produced milk, which could

TDS is real, and it goes both ways
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Mar 2, 2025
I was at a dinner event during which Trump came up as a topic of conversation. “Biden would have been a better President as a

EWC: Don’t panic! (But if you have to, do it like this)
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Feb 2, 2025
When I heard President Cyril Ramaphosa recently signed the EWC (Expropriation Without Compensation) Bill into law, I was deeply disturbed. A great sadness crept over

This New Year, ignore the light at the end of the tunnel
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Jan 5, 2025
Let’s talk about New Year’s resolutions and the light at the end of the tunnel that is your destiny in 2025. Having studied the nature

How to think like a Jaguar exec
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Dec 8, 2024
I am not a luxury brand consumer, nor one of electric vehicles. but I might be one day, so it’s perfectly fine for me to

(Why) are Joburgers friendlier than Capetonians?
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Nov 3, 2024
In my keynote presentation, The great trek back, I reflect on my move to Cape Town from Joburg, highlighting some of the main differences I

Pianos on the patio and a poo on the pavement
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Oct 13, 2024
I cannot recommend more highly that you do what I recently did – remove homeless people from their homes, forcibly if you have to. It