Viv Vermaak

“You can have my beer, Helen Zille – but give me running water!” It seems an odd combination to put Helen Zille, Ozempic, and beer

I played a fascinating game with fellow attendees at a conference last year. The facilitator divided us into different personality groups, using the Myers-Briggs classification.

Parts of me feel like an American refugee; ‘n verrraaier, even. At times, I feel as if I snuck off the battlefield early, leaving the

World attention is increasingly focused on South Africa. In the vast, rich country of extremes and diversity, human dramas are played off every day. It

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 –

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

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

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

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

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