There is a scientist whose name is etched in coastal and marine conservation in South Africa. She is marine ecologist Dr Kerry Sink from the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in Cape Town. […]
It’s been 33 years since Azhar Cachalia was a student at Wits. Back than he had to apply to the government to attend a ‘white’ university, as did all black students – defined as African, Indian and Coloured. […]
Marianne Fassler is Africa’s Alice in Wonderland. Her fashion garments and home reflect her hypnotic love affair with South Africa and the continent she calls home. […]
Any Divorce, however amicable, is hard on children. They suffer collateral, or inadvertent, damage.They lose their sense of security, they probably have to move from their family home, they may not enjoy the same standard of living and they may even be uprooted from schools, neighbourhoods, friends and families. […]
It has taken twelve long years for the original descendants of the Khomani San to start benefiting from their ancestral land inside and outside the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, even though it was returned to them in 1999. […]
“Analysts and investors have commented on Nedbank’s incredible journey. I see Nedbank returning to the top position amongst the four major banks in South Africa over the next ten years. I leave at a good time.” […]
There is a modest white gravestone in the old cemetery in the Eastern Cape town of Middelburg. This is the resting place of John Sweet Distin Esquire, formerly of Tafelberg Hall, a farm with its own distinctive ‘table mountain’ on the outskirts of Middelburg. […]
When Julius Malema and other stone-throwing politicians try to win votes by shouting about redistributing more white-owned commercial farms, they need to be taken in hand and shown that this is as logical as drinking brandy to get sober. – Andries Pienaar, 2010 South African Sheep Farmer of the Year. […]
Wind and rain swept through the dark streets of Nieuwoudtville like a highwayman claiming his sweetheart. Sheltering from the storm in the large kitchen of a stone cottage, a group of friends sat round the hearth, where a woodfire crackled. They chatted and laughed and urged Hennie O’Kennedy to sing. […]
“It’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!” In 1973 an American science fiction film called ‘Soylent Green’ pictured a future in 2022 when the world is suffering from [...]
