Journeys to reinvention and sustainable living
For an entire year, I have not bought new clothes, driven by evidence of the harm the fast fashion industry does to the environment and the people who work in it. This was a big deal for me: I’ve always
Meet the inventor of the sidecar ambulance and clinic The road has been long and winding – from a north London workshop on a chilly morning into the imagination of a Saudi prince, on to the rural home of Nelson
Motorbike sidecar ambulances and clinics are one of the best things to come out of the Eastern Cape. Yet certain quarters are trying their best to bludgeon the life out of this initiative that reaches into the heart of rural
Multi-talented Kathryn Harmer Fox has found her way to fibre art. Or maybe fibre art has found its way to her. Either way, we are grateful. Some days, Kathryn Harmer Fox’s paint box is scattered all over the floor of
Where is the acknowledgement that we are frightened and in pain? Why are we not comforting each other? This reality demands a new kind of intelligence from us. No-one alive has been here before. Let me rephrase: unless you are
If you’ve wondered why and how to make masks, then this post is for you. Making facemasks almost broke me. Apparently I saw the need for cloth masks to help in our battle against the coronavirus pandemic some time before
Celebrating ordinary people emerging as heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic Long before the dust started settling on the mask-or-not debate, people in Rhodes Village and its Zakhele township in the mountains near the South Africa-Lesotho border were crossing old barriers
Let’s talk about stigma – you know, that nasty human tendency to shame groups of people as outcasts because it makes you feel better than “them” and somehow protected from “them”. Stigma remains a defining feature of how we have
About 30 years ago, when the first stories about HIV and AIDS emerged, I was a health reporter on the Sunday Tribune in Durban, the main city of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This province initially seemed to be hardest hit as
We touch in so many ways, just not physically Tessa is at the garden gate and we lunge at each other. I want to hug her and kiss her, smack-bang on the lips (it’s a South African thing). Then we
