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

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

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

A Legacy Reimagined Few timepieces carry as much heritage as Omega’s Moonwatch, the chronograph that went to the moon and cemented its...