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The many roads that take you there
6 October 20207 October 2020 Janette Bennett

The many roads that take you there

Ambles, Coronavirus, Reinvention, Slow travel

Escape from lockdown: Travelling in the time of the coronavirus With #him, I have spent the past three weeks meandering 3,500km back and forth across the breadth of South Africa, with a mild jiggle to the north. We take time out

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What we need now is kindness
15 May 202026 May 2020 Janette Bennett

What we need now is kindness

Coronavirus, Life, Reinvention, Writing

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

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Facing up to the new normal
21 April 202021 October 2020 Janette Bennett

Facing up to the new normal

Coronavirus, Handmade, Life, Reinvention

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

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The mask makers of Rhodes Village and Zakhele
9 April 202021 April 2020 Janette Bennett

The mask makers of Rhodes Village and Zakhele

Coronavirus, Eastern Cape, Handmade, Life, People, Reinvention

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

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What will you do when it comes for you?
31 March 202021 April 2020 Janette Bennett

What will you do when it comes for you?

Coronavirus, Life

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

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A tale of two viruses
18 March 202021 October 2020 Janette Bennett

A tale of two viruses

Coronavirus, Life, Writing

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

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Clothes with Karma in the time of the virus
16 March 20208 September 2020 Janette Bennett

Clothes with Karma in the time of the virus

Coronavirus, Reinvention, Slow fashion, Sustainable living

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

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