Dante’s Inferno comes to town. Everyone in officialdom blames each other for the fire that killed at least 74 people in the old central business district of Joburg. Most who...

In times of turmoil and uncertainty, there’s a need to lighten up. Not necessarily with beer. But Derek Watts, an old friend who died last week, sums it up in...

Check this out on a somewhat fraught national elections day    Here’s an absolutely stunning video. To plagiarise David Livingstone, angels in flight must be gazing on scenes as lovely...

The national holiday this week, Heroes’ Day, remembers fallen freedom fighters and their surviving, now-elderly brothers and sisters.  In the words of the ancient Chinese masters, a guerrilla must swim...

  The comb is for tidying a new beard gown to distract you from my thinning cheeks and jowls, the side effects of weakened health and aging. Before the chin...

Farewell Jane Birkin, singer and actress dead at the age of 76 in Paris. To those of us initiates in our distant Bohemian days, she was born British, in Chelsea...

It’s three meals a day at the summit in the sumptuous surroundings of St Petersburg. Food is high on the agenda. Is there enough within reach, now and in times...

In Harare, Zimbabwe In so-often discredited history, it could be said the French did it better. For the most part they didn’t send permanent settlers to far flung territories they...

Sock it to ’em!  Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather has been in the headlines again. He has apparently spent US 7 million in the Gucci shop in Joburg and was escorted out...