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Iman Rappetti
Iman Rappetti is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and the author of Becoming Iman and Sermons of Soul. She is the owner of RappettiCom, a communications agency based in Johannesburg.
Iman Rappetti: Saving your tears doesn’t save you
We are so adept at bottling our emotions and storing them that we ignore the implications.
Iman Rappetti: The seasonal yearning for a ritual of a religious exile
My spiritual home is no longer Christianity and Islam but I miss the soundtrack and rites of my former beliefs
OPINION | The catalytic prospects of hopelessness
Perhaps if we stop cleaving to hope and choose our dissatisfaction; realise the awful truth that the only saviour is individual and collective agency, then a different outcome…
Are you being treated as a high value individual?
If not, it’s time you put some boundaries in place
Loneliness: A chain that melts the blood inside veins
An unknown woman’s death, alone and far away, inspires Iman Rappetti to sing her own confessional song, a cri de coeur for connection
Small businesses must be proactive in their tax affairs
There are numerous means by which errant taxpayers can start the new year on a clean slate
On, er, motherhood
Oh, to have 18 arms and be self-contained!
Starved of a soft place to land
‘Friday’ profiles different styles of writing – this time by a popular media personality who explores two kinds of hunger
Grandmother, mother, martyr
My grandmother made do instead of making the most of, and my mother was a martyr.
On our ill-conceived normality: An ode to ‘the mad ones’
In the words of Edgar Allan Poe: “Men have called me mad, but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence …
The fatwa versus the fools
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. To many the bearded cleric is a menacing symbol of militant Shi’ite Islam. But to millions of his admirers, both inside and outside Iran, he is the…