The crisis has caused many to scale down on shopping but fact is that people will always need clothes. Some designers, Marion & Lindie to name a few, are cutting down prices for up to 50% on their new arrivals and those who have always dreamed but could not afford now can.

Over the past two weeks my sense of perspective towards the art of conversation has changed. I have also realised just how powerful the mind is…

Here’s the thing, love is one of those things that is never simple. It’s always complicated, at least, that’s my experience of it. In light of this, maybe it is a good idea to look at it from a scientific perspective…

Congress of the People (COPE) came onto the political scene with shots firing from left, right and centre, all challenging the African National Congress (ANC), which was something the country had been asking for since the elections of 1999. ANC dominance had never been challenged since the dawn of democracy in 1994 and it seemed like it would remain that way for a very long time to come. From the premises of Primedia, Mbhazima Shilowa and Mosiuoa “Terror”  Lekota “served their divorce” letters to the ANC so they could form a …

We are naturally inquisitive beings but sometimes our curiosity may lead us into situations we end up regretting! Curiosity did not kill the cat. It might have made sure that he doesn’t return to the scene of the crime but surely didn’t kill him!

Wuthering Heights encapsulates the devastating effects of an obsessive and all-encompassing yet unresolved love between a man and woman. Combined with a thorough social commentary on the instability of society and social class, this classic Gothic-fiction novel is as poignant today as it was when it was first published in 1847.

Success comes, as Rudyard Kipling puts it: “If you can keep your head when others are losing theirs”.

I was raised to love mankind and accept it with all its flaws. Amidst my Anglican family, “Love thy enemy” is what the big man with the pretty dress would say. Being a kid, that was pretty easy for me, though life’s harsh realities seem to have made it harder.

The words beautiful, creative, outspoken can all aptly describe this young lady but before she is all the above, she is a young South African woman, making her mark in the media industry and inspiring many as she goes al

Just as I was getting tired of seeing the forced smiles of politicians on election posters, I received a text message from the youth wing of the newly formed Congress of the People (COPE) inviting me to a pre-election party at a club in Rosebank, it read as follows: POLITICS UNUSUAL-DRESS: SMART CASUAL, NO TAKKIES, 21 APRIL 21H30, GREAT DJS INCLUDING SOULCANDI.