More entertaining than watching the riders go by is being in the skirmish for promotional junk, writes <b>Charlotte Bauer</b>.
Life under the post-aviation volcano would be slow moving, if not entirely peaceful at first, writes <b>Charlotte Bauer</b>.
In recent times, and most visibly since the murder of AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, a certain kind of shirt has come to stand for more.
Growing numbers of mostly white South Africans, who moved to Australia so that their children could play on the streets, are re-packing for Pretoria.
Possibly the only British citizen not troubled by Jacob Zuma’s state visit to the UK this week is the queen.
Perhaps the royal planners thought they would have things in common: whether by accident or design, Zuma was seated next to Camilla Parker Bowles.
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/ 5 February 2010
Charlotte Bauer: What has sobered me since the story went public is how very seriously South Africa’s citizens are taking this turn of events.
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/ 22 January 2010
The name Belinda Bauer might not ring big bells for South Africans, but she is both my sister and the author of a new crime thriller.
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/ 11 December 2009
South African Francophiles can be a pretentious bunch, but one such trio has produced a quality cookbook, writes Charlotte Bauer.
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/ 27 November 2009
The biggest upside of not having an office party is that the risk of death or injury on the way home will be massively diminished.
Among ringing cowbells, delegates at the start of the 2009 World Economic Forum on Africa took their seats and turned on their Blackberries.
Even the SABC’s announcement about why they had ditched the doctored version of the show at the last minute was so clunky.
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/ 9 November 2008
The Troyeville Hotel heaved with party people on Wednesday night as hundreds turned up to celebrate Barack Obama’s White House win.
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/ 13 September 2008
One of Thought Leader’s most popular bloggers has been named winner of the "innovative use of the Internet" award at the Highway Africa conference.
The scoop on the models at the Sanlam SA Fashion Week recently held at the Sandton Convention Centre, is that some of them aren’t models.
Once minor aesthetic procedures, such as Botox injections and "fillers", had to be administered by a medical specialist: now my GP does them in betwee
About the time man first walked on the moon, flying was considered to be quite glamorous. Back then, commercial air travel must have been like going to a nightclub. It involved wearing your coolest clothes, guzzling free booze without fear of being restrained in plastic cuffs and at least pretending you’d got laid.
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/ 15 February 2008
Author Jonny Steinberg’s <i>Three-Letter Plague</i> has attracted serious critical and retail attention in the US, writes Charlotte Bauer.
What do Patricia de Lille, Tokyo Sexwale and Constand Viljoen have in common?
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/ 25 February 1994
Zackie Achmat, aged 10 when he seduced his first grown-up, tells his life story in a new collection of gay essays.
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/ 4 February 1994
And God said: ‘Go into the wilderness and consider your sins. I can’t keep on cleansing and purging and cleansing you.’ So Jimmy Swaggart came to SA.
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/ 14 January 1994
Host of the talk show of the moment, Night Moves, Dali Tambo has sailed into town at the prow of the Good Ship New South Africa …
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/ 13 January 1989
Last Friday, as the storm clouds gathered above the AWB, Dries Alberts paid a visit to Eugene TerreBlanche on his farm in Ventersdorp.