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Family Time At Tsitsikamma
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Family Time At Tsitsikamma

Most Friday mornings, the house is filled with alarms, water running, crying and grumbling, and a stern voice shouting for children to bath, brush their teeth, have their breakfasts and get ready to leave for school. This Friday morning, however, there was a very different energy, one that you could almost reach out a pat...

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Zanzibar

Gone are the days when you say your vows, dance with the family and hop onto a plane for weeks of island bliss as a honeymoon. Sure, that sounds about right, but we did it differently. We had two weddings right after each other; on the 22nd of December was our “white” wedding, we then...

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Mali is Magical …

George Gladwin: Hi Lerato… Lerato Mogoatlhe:Hi, how you be? George Gladwin: Me, I’m OK… For a second there I thought you were ignoring me, but otherwise I’m cool. Lerato Mogoatlhe: Same here, sorry about disappearing last week, SMSed, but ha, it turns out none of my texts to SA numbers made it. No, I was thinking gore why...

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Malawi (Part 2)

MUSIC & LIGHTS Salim, who I’ve been rolling with for the last two days tells me about Q Malewezi who is both the Managing Director of a local magazine called Abstrak Beatz, and, apparently, the only “real” producer Malawi has. I call his office to find out if we can meet, and him and his...

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Malawi (Part 1)

We know the saying about “when in Rome”, but what about when in Lilongwe? On a brief hiatus from Jozi-living and all it’s trappings, Lelethu discovered her hippie side and became one with the locals. And, in the end, she discovered more about herself, her peers and the continent, than she’d expected. (This was to...