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LIFE & STYLE SPRING 2025

Life & Style from Ballito is a print and digital lifestyle magazine, presenting its readers with a continually evolving mix of lifestyle-related topics including health, beauty, fun, fashion, property, motoring, trends, profiles, technology, food, and entertainment. Since launching in 2004, Life & Style from Ballito has become a firm part of life on the North Coast, serving as a guide to good living and earning a well-established local presence and loyal audience base.

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PREVIOUS ISSUES

LIFE & STYLE SUMMER 2025

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