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TODAY'S recipes from the South African Mushroom Farmers Association are two of my personal favourites to make. Some people may be intimidated by risotto and I blame MasterChef Australia, where the judges always put so much pressure on contestants... "Oh no, I can't believe she's making risotto!"…
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PAUL SLABOLEPSZY is, according to his Wikipedia page, "Arguably South Africa's preeminent playwright after Athol Fugard, Slabolepszy is a prolific writer and performer. He was a founder member of The Space Theatre, South Africa's first non-racial theatre company, with Athol Fugard, Yvonne Bryceland…
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WHAT is it about July and August that just seems to drag on forever? I swear last month was at least seven weeks long, and August is creeping along just as slowly. "Don't wish your life away," I was told as a child but when you're waiting for payday you can be forgiven for this. The South African…
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HACIENDA Coastal Mexican - bringing the spirit of Baja California to the tables of Cape Town - has been open for a smidge more than two months. In that time, I've seen many positive reviews and comments online and on social media. Having now eaten there myself, I can tell you all the good things are…
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CELEBRATED Cape Town-based saxophonist Don Vino, along with other award-winning South African artists Jimmy Nevis, Loyiso Bala and Ernie Smith, will be setting the stage on fire with Saxy Vibes 4.0 at Good Hope Christian Centre in Ottery on August 27. This performance marks the end of Don Vino’s…
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IT'S a great month for British drama on Showmax, with This Is Going To Hurt, Landscapers and The Responder all up and ready to binge right now, all of which I highly recommend. You can rest easy with the eternal book-to-screen debate with This Is Going To Hurt, because author (and real life…
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IT’S a year since BritBox launched in South Africa, bringing you the best of British telly to stream at your leisure, a to celebrate this milestone, it has three new and exclusive titles launching in August, featuring some of the leading names working in British entertainment today. The darkly…
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IT was a legit road trip for PR star Yolandi de Wet, who had the brilliant idea to take four media folk - in her own car - for a day in the countryside to visit Bonnievale Wines and the town with the same name. It's 150km due east of Cape Town, the literature tells me; Yolandi drove from Hermanus to…
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THE annual release of De Wetshof Limestone Hill, one of South Africa's most popular unwooded Chardonnays, has always been cause for excitement. Not only for the wine, which is wonderful of course, but for the event at which it is unveiled. After two non-years for that, it was back with a flourish…
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IT began with me being tagged in an Instagram post by Kim Katzke of Homestead Serendipity in Montagu. She'd eaten at the brand spanking new Kapokbos restaurant at Weltevrede in Bonnievale, and urged me to visit “when I was in the area” which I was (spending a long weekend in McGregor), so I went.…
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