Crafty, stylish sisters Angela and Janet Shaw had spoken about doing something together for years before they decided to launch their own label.
5FM’s Nicole da Silva may work during the wee hours, but it doesn’t stop her from keeping her days busy too.
The makers of <i>White Wedding</i> follow up their local hit comedy with a funny take on South Africa’s quirky cops and criminals.
Author Ken Follett is in SA for the launch of the movie <i>Paradise Stop</i>. <b>Nechama Brodie</b> spoke to him about writing and other hobbies.
Artist and sculptor David Rossouw started playing with metal for practical reasons when he built a fence around his parents’ house and had to learn how to weld.
Anyone can be an artist at the Design Indaba’s 72 Hours of Creativity project.
Party animal Michael Leslie loves music festivals and is the national communications manager for Red Bull South Africa.
Social networks are helping to fuel bullying in schools — leaving teenage girls bruised. <b>Nechama Brodie</b> reports
Loyiso Gola’s satirical news show makes politics funny again and is a surprising hit with audiences and critics.
<b>Nechama Brodie</b> describes why a ring is a girl’s BFF and why women’s boxing is gaining traction.
"They jingle, they jangle, I think they’re just right," says jewellery designer Zoja Mihic.
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/ 19 November 2010
Jodi Solomon has struck a blow for women by becoming a successful trainer in the male-dominated world of boxing.
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/ 17 November 2010
Fynbos is fire-dependent vegetation that needs to burn around every 15 years to stimulate new growth.
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/ 5 November 2010
Following the launch of Herschelle Gibbs’s new autobiography, <i>To the Point</i>, SA cricketers have been scrambling to respond.
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/ 4 November 2010
Newton explained inertia like this: ‘Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus a viribus impressis cogitur statum illum mutare.” Loosely: every body persists in its state of being, at rest or moving uniformly straight forward, except where it is compelled to change its state by an external force. […]
Woodstock in Cape Town isn’t really the right setting for a western, even a spaghetti western. But it’s the perfect place for an urban cowgirl.
Iron is the most difficult metal to smelt and shape. Harder than copper and stronger than bronze.
<i>Cape Town Girl</i>’s success threatens to obliterate the real babe behind it
<b>Nechama Brodie </b>appreciates the art of buying printed books in an age of digital reproduction.
Ebenhaezer Smal – aka Haezer – plays the kind of music that makes you want to dance.
Omar Badsha is best known as a photographer and activist, but his exhibition offers insight into a neglected era of South African art and culture.
Hidden below Johannesburg where trains once ran, <b>Nechama Brodie</b> finds fragments of a time gone by.
Ten years ago Jo’burg launched the Johannesburg Art City Project, meant “to transform the city into the world’s largest outdoor art gallery.
<strong>Nechama Brodie</strong> has a touchy-feely moment at the Nirox Sculpture Park.
<strong>Nechama Brodie</strong> tells how she met the star of Grease, hoping for an exclusive or a scoop, but came away only with this byline.
Send no flowers. My Facebook profile is dead. A little after midnight, on Monday May 31, I permanently deleted my Facebook account.
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/ 16 September 2008
Why junk food won’t just make you fat — it will make you sick. Nechama Brodie reports.
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/ 15 September 2008
First developed over 40 years ago, the relatively unknown practice of orthokeratology uses corrective contact lenses to re-shape the cornea.
Surfing the net for hours at a time could put your health at risk, says Nechama Brodie.
Surfing the net for hours at a time could put your health at risk, says Nechama Brodie.
Are dissenting parents putting other children — and communities — at risk? Nechama Brodie reports
Are energy drinks creating a generation of binge drinkers and troubled teens? Nechama Brodie investigates.