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Where the Ocean Meets the Architecture

On the KZN North Coast, a new vision of coastal luxury is taking shape: one where the boundary between the home and the horizon simply ceases to exist. Imagine waking up on a Saturday morning. The sun is already climbing above the Indian Ocean, throwing long gold light across the water. You pad downstairs (barefoot, unhurried) and the house opens around you. Not because you've opened a door, but because the wall in front of you is glass. Floor to ceiling. Edge to edge. The se

Life & Style

Apr 103 min read

A Peek Behind the Curtain at Tambourine

A thick velvet curtain frames the entrance to the Tambourine restaurant on Harrington Street, where we have a dinner reservation. We are early. I reach out, tentatively, and draw back the curtain — the floor is empty but for a waiter bent over a table setting, making adjustments. I let the curtain fall again. “We are too early,” I hiss to my dining partner in a stage whisper. Words: Mia McCarthy Alerted to our premature arrival, the staff falls into a well-choreographed rou

Mia McCarthy

Apr 35 min read

There Is No Shame in Disenchantment

Lately, I’ve noticed a change in how people talk about the news. Not anger. Not outrage. Something quieter. A sentence that trails off rather than lands. I don’t read the news anymore. At least, not like I used to. Sometimes it’s said with a shrug. Sometimes with guilt. Often with relief. Words: Penny Fourie I recognise the impulse, even though disengagement is not an option for me.I don’t encounter South Africa’s failu es through headlines alone. My work takes me into audit

Life & Style

Apr 35 min read

Old Skin. Snakes, horses, and myths we need to shed

I turn 31 this month. Apparently, that means it's time for some prescription-strength retinoids. They can cause a bit of peeling at first. But I've battled with my skin for years, so honestly? The idea of sloughing off my old one sounds fantastic. According to Chinese astrology, last year's Year of the Snake has been inviting exactly this—the serpentine shedding of the old to make way for the new. Now, as we move into the lunar new year, the legendary Fire Horse awaits us. Wh

Tara Boraine

Apr 36 min read

The Soutie Africans:The Infinite Strangeness of British Heritage in Mzansi

“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar.” Marc Antony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar . Do I belong in South Africa? Under the laws, yes. Of course. I was born in Parklands Hospital in Durban when Mandela was President. I’ve spent nearly all my life here. I own no other pet but a Green Mamba. As the Constitution has it, I’m welcome to stay for as long as I like, and I

Cameron Luke Peters

Apr 316 min read

Saving Willow

They say that nothing happens by chance and if ever I wanted reassurance that the Universe is unfolding as it should, the unexpected gift that we received in the dying embers of last year gave me exactly that. Words: Dave Charles I will admit that I have been overly concerned with the reality of getting older lately and have become a bit of a recluse as a result. Life has carried on at its petty pace from day-to-day as the bard put it, without much happening to jolt me from m

Dave Charles

Apr 33 min read

Oaths and Snakes - Rich Mnisi

It started with a promise. After winning the AFI (Africa Fashion International) Young Designer of the Year award in 2014 with a collection that he had made inside his mother’s garage in 2014, Rich Mnisi launched his first fashion label. He called the label OATH, a name that would serve as a covenant between himself and his late sister to have his work represent a personal commitment to always creating from a truthful place. In keeping with that covenant, it was only right tha

Dan Charles

Apr 35 min read

How to believe the house you wake in is your home.

“I think that, at the heart of all my bodies of work there always lies the sense of belonging. Whether it is in this land, whether it is within yourself and also within the day-to-day routines.” Words: Dan Charles Not long after leaving her studio in Woodstock, my phone buzzed with a barrage of texts from the artist Alka Dass. She had sent me an assortment of screenshots and links to all of the poems that we had spent a good portion of the afternoon gushing over while drinki

Dan Charles

Dec 8, 20257 min read

The Myth of Billy Monk

How do you write a myth? With difficulty, I’ve found. It’s not that there is little to say about the one-time nightclub photographer Billy Monk. His short but spectacular life has spawned a veritable archive of hundreds of photographs and thousands of words, many of them rumours. Nevertheless, the abundance of the archive is refracted through an abruptly premature death, rendering the man a kaleidoscopic figure: never fixed, always colourful. Words: Mia McCarthy To start:

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It happened about a month ago. The turning point, I mean — the first catastrophic backlash. Around the same time that I was developing a niche interest in the commercial-failure-turned-cult-classic folk albums of Vashti Bunyan and Tia Blake (what are the odds of that happening twice?), publishing house Hachette pulled Mia Ballard’s horror novel, Shy Girl, after the author faced accusations of using generative AI to write parts of the book.

Sindiso Khumalo

Sustainable textile designer Sindiso Khumalo has opened her flagship store in the newly renovated Longkloof Precinct in Cape Town — a...

Mia McCarthy

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Penroe & King

We adore this vibrant kitchen designed and built by Bristol cabinet makers Penroe & King. Deploying striking Valchromat colours framed...

Mia McCarthy

May 21, 20251 min read

Furniture Design - DEFT

DEFT is a local furniture design and production studio based in the Eastern Cape. After their architectural studies, designers Martin and...

Shannon Devy

May 21, 20251 min read

Ricotta, Prosciutto, and Caramelised Nectarine Recipe

The caramelised nectarine is the star of this dreadfully easy and delightfully delicious dish.

Shannon Devy

Jan 24, 20253 min read

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Where the Ocean Meets the Architecture

A Peek Behind the Curtain at Tambourine

There Is No Shame in Disenchantment

Old Skin. Snakes, horses, and myths we need to shed

The Soutie Africans:The Infinite Strangeness of British Heritage in Mzansi

Saving Willow

Oaths and Snakes - Rich Mnisi

How to believe the house you wake in is your home.

The Myth of Billy Monk

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Ricotta, Prosciutto, and Caramelised Nectarine Recipe

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