Viv Vermaak

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

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

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

The intensity and explosion of celebration surrounding our recent Rugby World Cup triumph is cause for a pause for reflection. People are stealing time off

Gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand in 1886. The valuable product brought industry to the East Rand with its gleaming underground arterial grids of potential.

Take care of your devils, dear friends. Make sure their fangs stay jagged and their horns pointy. File their barbed tails till they cut like

I have a room in my house I haven’t cleaned for 20 years. An urgent selling of the property has forced me to start dismantling

Elon Musk does it, Mark Zuckerberg does it, and I do it. Everybody’s doing Jiu-Jitsu. It’s the sport de rigueur of Hollywood and the rest

First, it happens slowly. Then it happens fast. The melting pot of races, cultures and socio-economic conditions simmers and gurgles at an ever-increasing temperature until

You know that long whistle a mechanic makes when he looks at your engine while he slowly shakes his head? The mournful eye contact as