Sign up for a Cape Town tour and chances are somewhere along the line you’ll find yourself heading out to Stellenbosch for a wine tour. This beautiful little town in the heart of the Boland region of the Western Cape lies surrounded by a whopping 130 wineries, cellars and wine farms. But that is not the only thing that...
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William Shakespeare, the most famous of all playwrights brought to the world twisted accounts of betrayal as seen in Macbeth, tragic tales of love in Romeo and Juliet and a sordid tragedy that life can turn into [Hamlet], penned down more comedies as opposed to the tragedy and drama he’s renowned for. Dramatic and tragic are...
read moreI think about videogames constantly. As a child in Cape Town, it was not the tennis courts or the soccer fields which called my name, but the incessant beeping of my Famicon [Nintendo] console. From a very young age, my calling was the arcades. I remember my father having to hoist me up so that I could reach the greasy controls of...
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Even after severe warnings that I would be facing imminent drugging and sexual abuse from the predators that would be lurking and circling like sharks in the feeding frenzy that is Long Street, I still went. Driven by pure determination to spend my first New Years among the crazy crowd that inhabits Long Street after hours, I...
read moreThis is the start of Christmas. Our office braai begins in T-minus two hours and fourteen minutes. I have been looking forward to this particular braai for over two weeks, counting the days and hours as they slowly rolled by. We have chosen a forest that I hope will not be too windy, as the week has been full of the usual Cape Town...
read moreMy work presents me with many copywriting challenges, which I relish. This is of course, all good and well, as long as I am capable of living up to the tasks assigned to me. I was recently heavily critiqued on a body of work which me and my team spend a fair amount of time on. Our nameless client [let’s not anger anyone shall...
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