Lifestyle

ROK’ing it out – life in Seoul

Lauren Clark is a South African living and working in Seoul, South Korea as an English teacher. “I have been in Seoul for about two years, and despite many humorous incidents of miscommunication and inadvertent faux-pauxs on my part, this is the most fun I’ve had since varsity!”

Celebrating Burns night the Saffa way

Here’s to the whiskey, the women and the haggis! You’d be forgiven for thinking that this was a toast between men in suits in a gentlemen’s club. In fact, the Scots have been toasting each other this way for over 200 years in honour of Robert Burns, Scotland’s best loved...

SA artists at MIDEM

At the launch of MIDEM music trade fair on Sunday 24 January, there is an opening night party entitled ‘Celebrating Africa’s music’. Each SA artist will get 15 minutes to showcase their music at this prestigious event, with interludes played by SA DJs Black Coffee, DJ Christos and Static Plastic....

Mugabe and the White African

A disquieting documentary following the experiences of Michael Campbell, a white farmer who stood up to Robert Mugabe’s violent campaign of forced land reclamation in Zimbabwe. Refusing to back down in the face of intimidation, Campbell challenged Mugabe at the South African Development Community’s international court. Filmed covertly, this documentary...

Barbara Vermeulen in Netherlands

We moved to the Netherlands, also known as Holland, the country of windmills, tulips, clogs and cheese, in 2005. At first we lived in Bodegraven, a small town halfway between Leiden and Utrecht, where very few people speak English.

Rhapsody’s Restaurant

You will be overwhelmed by the welcoming reception of the friendly staff and inviting decor. We were seated in the middle of it all, although any where would have been satisfactory, being five stories up on the rooftop, with a west facing view of the best sunset imaginable.  

The Brazen Head Montana

The pub is tucked away in the corner of a small shopping centre, West End Lifestyle and Decor Centre, cnr of Zambezi Drive and Veronica Road Montana, Pretoria. Because it is enclosed in the shopping centre parking is safe for about a hundred vehicles.

Villa San Giovanni

Operating as a family business for the last twenty nine years, Villa San Giovanni Ristorante offers real Italian food prepared by Giovanni, a dedicated Italian chef and also the owner of the restaurant, together with his wife Maria and sons Christian and Luca.

Christmas cheer in UK

One thing that is done well in the UK, is Christmas… the lights, the shows, the pantomime! I've been fortunate enough to win some tickets to see Aladdin at the local theatre and I will be taking some South African friends.

Booking your seat at the soccer!

Only seven months away, the 2010 FIFA World Cup is drawing closer by the minute. With many preparations still in the works, now is a good time to work on actually getting there.

The first and second phases of the ticket sales process already began in February and closed on 16...

Yolandi Jansen van Vuuren in Australia

G’day mate... Yeah lots of kangaroos hey? That’s not really the impression I got the day I arrived in Perth. I thought kangaroos were scarce here because I only saw my first one after three months, but now I see them a lot more. They are actually the softest animals...

South Africa through a Coloured lens

One of the many privileges of being White is to not have to think about your race very much. I often envy this state of mind, whereby one has transcended racial thinking and attained a higher-plane of social existence, as something I would sincerely like to attain in my life....

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