

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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“Adapt or die!” We didn’t really adapt, did we?
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Jul 7, 2024
We often say: “The ANC has had 30 years to govern, but hasn’t fixed the country yet.” We shake our heads at how unevolved ANC

I wish I was a slut
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Jun 16, 2024
Having been a woman now for long enough and looking back, there are two main areas of improvement I would concentrate on if I had

Why did Moses have only 10 rules, but we have thousands?
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Jun 2, 2024
Life might have been harder in the times of Moses, but it was simpler: Move towards a promised land, move away from an evil persecutor,

How do you explain bitcoin to a Pick n Pay teller?
- By Viv Vermaak
- . May 5, 2024
Earlier this week I bought groceries at the Pick n Pay with Bitcoin. It was my first time. I felt as it must have felt

The Lesson of the Golden Chicken
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Mar 31, 2024
Easter Egg hunts in my family were robust events. Ostensibly about the search for sugar in sparkly wrapping, they were also about checking to see

The great trek back
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Mar 3, 2024
The Boers left the Cape in 1838 because they were unhappy with the governance. We are glad to see you have learned your lesson now

The one thing we have to thank the ANC for
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Feb 4, 2024
The ANC-led government has taken a functioning country and turned it into near-ruins. They take no personal responsibility for it. Truth be told, they appear

The myth and curse of happiness
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Jan 7, 2024
The legend of Leander’s fatal swim across the Hellespont can teach us many lessons about the nature of happiness, although most just view it as

You can put your solar system where the sun don’t shine
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Dec 14, 2023
In this piece, published in May, and which was one of our most-read pieces of 2023, Viv Vermaak describes her travails with installing solar electricity

Because Jesus plays rugby for the first team, that’s why
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Dec 3, 2023
When I was small, I thought God spoke Afrikaans and the Afrikaners were the chosen people. This simple truth was evident in the fact that