Commentary

The heat is on. Bring it on.

A flailing Rand. Severe drought. Zuma. Was this the summer of our discontent? Cat Pritchard wonders if you can’t stand the heat, maybe you can wait for the South Easter.   It was the summer Read more…

Do you click with your culture?

Heritage Day? Shaka Day? Braai4Heritage? Cat Pritchard wonders if we are all speaking the same language.   It’s that time of year when the idea of a public holiday that celebrates our shared heritage awakens Read more…

Origin of the species

Homo Capetonianus is a strange species. Cat Pritchard discovers a few bones worth picking for preservation.   A dark cave filled with thousands of tiny bones. The people were divided on the findings from the Read more…

“Women’s products” that really help women

The month of women’s issues is enjoying its annual (re)cycle. Cat Pritchard unleashes her hormonal wrath on those playful pink plugs.     “Women’s products”. No two words have ever been more softly spoken and loudly Read more…

Bollard and the lost art of queuing

Cat Pritchard lines up the benefits of the single-file system and finds the queue comes up short.   Have you noticed the absence of choice in your local supermarket lately? I’m not talking about the Read more…

The plight of the holy hot cross bun

It happens but once a year. The smell of spicy cinnamon, warm nutmeg and sweet raisins wafting over the supermarket aisles, luring innocent shoppers to abandon their toilet paper purchases for a six-pack of doughy Read more…

Do you forage?

I don’t know many of my neighbours, but I do know their lemon/fig/pomegranate trees intimately. I visit them often, usually at dawn or dusk when the air is cool and human visibility is not so Read more…

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