Brent Meersman's Profile

Brent Meersman is a political novelist (Primary Coloured, Reports Before Daybreak).

He has been writing for the Mail & Guardian since 2003 about things that make life more enjoyable – the arts, literature and travel and (in his Friday column, Once Bitten) food.

If comments on the internet are to be believed, he is a self-loathing white racist, an ultra-left counter-revolutionary, a neo-liberal communist capitalist, imperialist anarchist, and most proudly a bourgeois working-class lad. Or you can put the labels aside and read what he writes. Visit his website: www.meersman.co.za

The pick of picnics

Al fresco eating can be classy and fun — especially when it’s done in style in a cool indigenous forest.

Putting real beauty on show

The Spring Queen pageant is far removed from the world of international glitz, feminist protests, big bucks and golf tours.

Braai master all fired up

Cooking began in the open, says Justin Bonello, and the challenges are unlimited.

The man who put us on the map

The display of a giant map of South Africa produced for King Louis XVI in 1790 by explorer Franois le Vaillant is a rarer sight than Halley's comet.

Boerie goes gourmet

No sport event, arts festival, theme park, carnival, or really any gathering of the public in South Africa is complete without the boerewors roll.

Beefing up the burger

Long popular in South Africa, in the past few years burgers seem to be having an African Renaissance of sorts.
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