If there is one favourite place in my house, it is without a doubt my porch. We built it during the lockdown – brick by brick and dream by dream. Today it is my place of silence. The place where the morning sun greets me first, where coffee...
Being a step-parent is a role for which nothing truly prepares you. You love, care, provide, worry and try your best to guide children who are not biologically yours, yet you can still feel like an outsider in your own home. You are expected...
Thank you so much for the incredible work you do pu ing the puzzles together. I had to remind the person sorting out magazines in Woolies that your YOU Codebreakers magazine was not out yet, then a week later, voila! Thrilled to have the latest...
I recently read about a well-known singer who assisted a young lad with serious health issues as his family was unable to cover the costs of his lifesaving operation. e singer’s name and the amount he gave were widely publicised on social...
I am sure I am not the only person who is disturbed by the craze of supermarket delivery shoppers. At supermarkets they push in front of customers to get to the items they must deliver within 60 minutes. Then they rush o with trolleys,...
THE diagnosis was a shock, but sitting in her doctor’s office with the word “cancer” still hanging in the air, Lisa Koppel’s first thought wasn’t about herself – it was about her three young children. There and then she made a decision: she...
JUST weeks ago she stood at the pinnacle of Silicon Valley success. Her Aipowered shopping app, Phia, had raised more than R700 million from A-list investors, had surpassed one million users and had been valued at about $185 million (R2,9...
THE morning sun streams through the windows of the modest home in George as they stand facing each other, hands clasped together. She’s wearing a simple white dress. He’s in a black shirt and jeans. Behind them, her parents watch with tears...
ONCE upon a time it was de rigueur for women to cover up when they were expecting. Billowing smocks, flowing frocks, baggy dungarees, big granny panties in case – heaven forbid – your skirt should blow up and reveal what’s actually going on in...
Prime Video This film is the third in a series of low-budget movies with its own following – it’s good in a way precisely because it’s so bad and you can’t help but laugh. And some scenes are worth watching just so you can roll your eyes. Like...