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Tour de goodies

More entertaining than watching the riders go by is being in the skirmish for promotional junk, writes <b>Charlotte Bauer</b>.

Somewhere over the runway

Life under the post-aviation volcano would be slow moving, if not entirely peaceful at first, writes <b>Charlotte Bauer</b>.

Getting shirty

Getting shirty

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.

Life in Oz is too ruff for us Saffers

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.

Royals shock Zuma

Royals shock Zuma

Possibly the only British citizen not troubled by Jacob Zuma’s state visit to the UK this week is the queen.

Queen’s banquet for Zuma: Wine, women and bagpipes

Perhaps the royal planners thought they would have things in common: whether by accident or design, Zuma was seated next to Camilla Parker Bowles.

Public tide turns against JZ

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.

My sister will be famous

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.

Pardon my French

South African Francophiles can be a pretentious bunch, but one such trio has produced a quality cookbook, writes Charlotte Bauer.

Making merry without the office party

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.

Herding and chewing the cud –

Among ringing cowbells, delegates at the start of the 2009 World Economic Forum on Africa took their seats and turned on their Blackberries.

Puppets in the hands of censorship

Even the SABC’s announcement about why they had ditched the doctored version of the show at the last minute was so clunky.

Barack’s popularity balloons

The Troyeville Hotel heaved with party people on Wednesday night as hundreds turned up to celebrate Barack Obama’s White House win.

Homeboy blogger wins big

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.

Civilians on the catwalk

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.

Botox sans frontiers

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

Ducking and diving

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…

SA author goes large

Author Jonny Steinberg’s <i>Three-Letter Plague</i> has attracted serious critical and retail attention in the US, writes Charlotte Bauer.

Pick your politician, not your party

What do Patricia de Lille, Tokyo Sexwale and Constand Viljoen have in common?

Confessions of a moffie kid

Zackie Achmat, aged 10 when he seduced his first grown-up, tells his life story in a new collection of gay essays.