What I’m loving this month...

VEEP

I know this is about five years old, but I’m a bit slow when it comes to TV. We’re only on season two (although at an average of two episodes a night, it won’t take us long to blitz our way through all seven). It’s funny, smart, foul-mouthed – and probably a little too close to political reality to be comfortable, but that’s also what makes it so compelling. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is extraordinary as US vice president Selina Meyer: needy, arrogant, selfish and ambitious. She’s a joy to watch.

ZAMANI SAUL, NORTHERN CAPE PREMIER

When he took over, he said he’d buy 27 new ambulances for the province instead of new cars for his provincial executive – and he did. Then he moved out of his expensive new office to take up a much smaller office in the hospital (he’s a doctor, so he feels at home there).

So far, he’s done everything he said he would, with minimal fuss – which makes him a hero in my eyes. When it comes to good governance,

Better Call Saul.

GIGI ROOFTOP AT GORGEOUS GEORGE

GiGi is the restaurant at this newly refurbished hotel in central Cape Town, and it’s lovely: excellent food in a beautifully designed room (complete with outdoor bar and pool). Apparently in summer GiGi holds Sunday afternoon jazz sessions in the bar where guests chill, swim and sip their famous cocktails while they listen; we were there on a cold winter night and I was very happy to sit cosily inside, drinking lovely wine and eating their really good food (chef Guy Bennett has worked with Reuben Riffel and Bertus Basson).