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JOURNEY TO A FRONTIER PAST.
ADELAIDE. Story and Pix by Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit. If you scratch around the little Eastern Cape town of Adelaide, wonderful...

Life & Style
Mar 19, 20225 min read


THREE BIOKINETICS SUCCESS STORIES.
By Leah Acampora. A good day of movement has a different meaning for everyone. For some, it’s successfully clocking their 10 000 steps on...

Life & Style
Mar 19, 20223 min read


WE SHALL FIGHT THEM ON THE BEACHES.
By Darrel Bristow-Bovey. I was talking to my friend Andre about Covid recently. Andre is one of life’s positive thinkers: he tries to...

Life & Style
Mar 19, 20223 min read


PARASITE / HUNTER KENNEDY.
As an artist whose career began with crafting lyrics such as “Kan iemand dalk ‘n god bel / En vir hom sê ons het hom nie meer nodig nie?”...

Life & Style
Mar 19, 20227 min read


IN CRUST WE TRUST.
Glenwood Artisan Bakery. By Mia McCarthy. Cape Town wins a lot of praise over its world-class coffee culture and bustling cafés – unless,...

Life & Style
Mar 18, 20223 min read


THE WONDER OF WALKING.
By Shannon Devy I was never much of a walker. But all that changed when I adopted a dog. I never liked to walk. For many years, I was...

Life & Style
Mar 18, 20223 min read


FREE FOOD IS ALL AROUND US.
By Dave Charles When the riots hit us last year and disrupted the supply chain, I suddenly wished that I had taken more notice of those...

Life & Style
Mar 18, 20223 min read


A DELICIOUSLY HOMEGROWN SUCCESS STORY.
By Warwick Taylor How did it start? I suppose it started by being a farmer’s son! I grew up on a farm in the Underberg area where my...

Life & Style
Mar 18, 20222 min read


GOING IN WAIST DEEP.
By Duncan Pritchard. The dolphin coast is riddled with intertidal rock pools.

Life & Style
Mar 18, 20223 min read


25 of the Best Irish Movies of All Time 🇮🇪
The time has finally arrived and our exclusive print magazine will be hitting Ballito and all the Slow lounges across South Africa.

Dan Charles
Mar 18, 20226 min read


Absorbing More Nutrients to Improve Health
In this weeks issue, we feature Penny Fourie, How to absorb nutrients and pigweed, the weed of the week.

Life & Style
Mar 11, 20226 min read


3 Ballito things that just make sense...
The blue Ballito sky is out (not actually blue skies, 60% chance of rain today but oh well) and yes, it’s slowly growing on me.

Dan Charles
Mar 7, 20225 min read


Sex in Afrikaans
WELCOME TO THE WEEKENDER The next issue of The Weekender is here! There have only been a few runs of our newsletter, but the process of...

Life & Style
Mar 1, 20225 min read


How I became the honest broker
Welcome to Issue #2 of The Weekender For me, Weekend Mode kicks in at about 11am every Friday. It’s like flipping a switch. The worries...

Life & Style
Feb 28, 20226 min read


TGIF! The Weekender is Here
Welcome to The weekender At the end of the week, you are probably looking for an escape from the regular routine to a place where you can...

Life & Style
Feb 28, 20225 min read


LIFE & STYLE SUMMER PRINT ISSUE OUT NOW !
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Life & Style
Dec 14, 20211 min read


THE ART OF GETTING STUCK.
I consider myself a reasonably good driver. After all, I have been a legally licensed driver for 45 years and, if you add two years for...

Dave Charles
Dec 14, 20214 min read


TALES OF A NORTH COAST BOY.
Brian Pottinger, author of the recently released personal memoir, I Em Smiling*, talks about his family and its links to this part of the...

Life & Style
Dec 14, 20213 min read


THIS SEASON WE LOVE.
Excellent build quality and packed with cool features at a fraction of the price of its competitors. It’s the perfect device for...

Life & Style
Dec 14, 20213 min read


LET’S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!
There is a demo tape from 1973. It’s an amateur single-track cassette tape recording - a cracking voice and butchered acoustic guitar.

Shannon Devy
Dec 14, 20216 min read
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