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/ 16 September 2008
Lisa Johnston and Nicole Johnston review three travel books whose subjects span across three different continents.
The personal narratives by 23 women, including the book’s compiler Marlene le Roux, are accompanied by Lucie Pavlovich’s fashion photographs.
Lisa Johnston expands her repertoire of soup beyond the usual butternut variety.
Lisa Johnston has herself committed to a cosy cocoon on a cold Cape Town weekend.
”There is no doubt that if you were searching for the ultimate partner in the Survivor Maputaland series, Gibson Mkhize would be the man to keep you fit, fat and flourishing.” Lisa Johnston explores the natural marvels of Maputaland, located in northern KwaZulu-Natal, close to Mozambique.
Lisa Johnston finds some of Sue Pam-Grant’s latest works to be darkly humourous
Lisa Johnston writes about an artist whose fabric panels are snapshots from her life
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/ 8 September 2006
”Don’t fool yourself. Speed kills,” a Power FM radio announcer tells listeners. It is hard to take his statement seriously. It’s a Friday afternoon in central Harare, and traffic dithers along at 40kph even though the speed limit is 60kph. Motorists drive slowly to conserve petrol, I am told, keeping an eye on the fuel gauge as the precious liquid diminishes into puffs of carbon dioxide.
When the gods created Madagascar, they panned the universe for things weird and wonderful, flung them to the heavens and let them fall willy-nilly to the island below. Anything that couldn’t or wouldn’t fit, it seems, was shoehorned into the capital Antananarivo — a place so obscurely cobbled together it has the appearance of a jigsaw puzzle roughly assembled from random bits.
It’s easier to revel in the luxury when seeing the smoke from the Zambian side of the Victoria Falls, writes Lisa Johnston. The story goes that tourism in the little town of Livingstone has benefited from the politics of its cantankerous neighbour. The situation, it is said, has sent tourists from the more developed Zimbabwe across the stream.