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Global Attraction, Museum of Illusions Arrives on Durban’s Shores
Get ready, Durban. Things are about to look a little different. Durban is about to welcome one of the world’s most fascinating attractions. The globally renowned Museum of Illusions will officially open its doors at Gateway Theatre of Shopping on Saturday, 25 April 2026, bringing its signature blend of science, art and immersive fun to KwaZulu-Natal. Already a global phenomenon with locations in cities including Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, New York and Dubai, the Durban op
Life & Style
Apr 162 min read
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:
Mia McCarthy
Dec 8, 20254 min read
Kramer Studio
Why Philip Kramer makes. Award-winning designer Philip Kramer fantasises about full-time employment. “I have a fantasy where I earn a salary. Yeah, I'll tell you that. I have a fantasy where, like, it's the 28th (of the month) and I have R50,000, and I have my expenses covered, and my job does not require me to spend half the money I make on the job itself. It’s like, you don't work in an office, and then they're like, Phil, it’s your turn to buy paper for the office, and you
Shannon Devy
Dec 8, 20254 min read
The Antique Utopia:
A Forgotten Story of South African Garden Cities and the Quest for Affordable Housing. “Perhaps [building ‘smart cities’ is a way] of ignoring the old stupid cities that we already have…” Ivan Vladislavic It’s always tickled me that one of Cape Town’s suburban shopping centres is named after a British utopian socialist urban-planner from the late Victorian era. This is, of course, the Howard Centre in the heart of Pinelands. It was named for Sir Ebenezer Howard OBE (1850-192
Cameron Luke Peters
Dec 8, 202510 min read
The Suv For Life Well Lived
TOYOTA LAND CRUISER 300 FOR THOSE WHO SEE A VEHICLE not merely as transport, but as an extension of taste, ambition, and lifestyle, the Toyota Land Cruiser 300 is in a class of its own. In South Africa, where the road shifts seamlessly from pristine coastline to rugged hinterland, this SUV promises both sophistication and capability without compromise. A Statement of Presence From the moment it appears on the horizon, the Land Cruiser 300 commands attention. Its bold grill
Life & Style
Dec 8, 20252 min read
Writing Ranjith Kally into the history books
Despite six decades of documenting South Africa’s history, Ranjith Kally is not a household name. His legacy deserves to be remembered and his name etched into history books. Kally’s images span a time period of 1946-2010 and his diverse repertoire captures the South Asian community in KwaZulu Natal, political heroes, labour, apartheid, protests, jazz, beauty contests, street-life, sports and other forms of social history. In it, we find a kind of genuine solidarity and toget
Life & Style
Dec 8, 202510 min read
Mind Your Mind
I'm sitting on the floor, surrounded by his life. Dust and detritus everywhere costume fragments, etching plates, drawings, photographs, paintings. The birds are loud outside, and so is the sea. It's quiet otherwise. Just me and the accumulated weight of it all. There’s a sign he used to make and stick up on the building site of our childhood home, where I grew up: “Mind Your Mind.” A warning about bumping your head. I feel mine bumping against something heavier now—the archi
Tara Boraine
Dec 8, 20257 min read
CRAFT
AN INTERVIEW WITH EMBROIDERY ARTIST DANIELLE CLOUGH Danielle Clough has given up her iPhone. Well, sort of. “I’ve noticed that my attention is very fractured because of my phone, so I got a light phone a few months ago, and I am loving it,” she says. We’re about halfway through our mid-August Zoom interview, and we’ve reached the crux of the matter. Danielle – gracious, open and generous with her time – is dialing in from Paradigm gallery in Philadelphia, where she’d just set
Shannon Devy
Nov 26, 20256 min read
The Robber Baronet
An Unbelievable Sketch of Sir David De Villiers Graaff, the first Afrikaner Mogul “Graaff fulfilled an ideal that had taken root among some wealthy business people internationally by the end of the 19th century - that wealthy people had a moral duty to start giving away part of their fortune during their lifetime. The American steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie was probably the first industrialist to openly declare, with scorching judgement in his ‘Gospel of Wealth’, that those who
Cameron Luke Peters
Nov 26, 202511 min read
The Woman & the Wheel
The spindle, whorl & wheel are tools, cognitive artifacts and archetypes that have come to create the modern human mind. For tools are creators of worlds. This month I'm going to spin a real ramble of a yarn. It seems fitting—I've always been drawn to cloth, to the art of textiles. I come from a long line of people with all kinds of sensory sensitivities, and as such was raised to appreciate the weave, quality and the breathability of a fibre. I also come from a long line of
Life & Style
Nov 26, 20256 min read
The Land Is Very Busy During Winter
Before you first enter Veld and Sea, you would have driven around the Klaasjagersberg mountains in Cape Point, past the southern communities of Muizenberg, Kalk Bay, and Simon’s Town to arrive at an innocuous yet sprawling patch of land where Veld and Sea sits. Words / Photos: Kim M Reynolds Its founder and lead educator, Roushanna Gray, would have welcomed you with a special tea blend specific to her, which is served to every visitor to Veld and Sea. I received this tea duri
Life & Style
Nov 26, 20255 min read
Omega Seamaster Moonwatch
A Legacy Reimagined Few timepieces carry as much heritage as Omega’s Moonwatch, the chronograph that went to the moon and cemented its...
Life & Style
Oct 3, 20251 min read
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