How a South African village turned an alien tree into superfood coffee
A caffeine-free ‘coffee’ in South Africa turns a problem plant into a healthy drink – and income for a remote community.
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I like to think of 'lifestyle' as travelling without leaving home. In my case this usually involves eating, drinking, reading, or gardening. But that doesn't mean I won't break out of my comfort zone. A recent feature on the Zip Zap Circus school was a particular favourite.
I'm totally obsessed with history - especially whacky tales from Africa and South America - and I've finally found some publications that are into it as I am. From battles and murderers through to sandwich sauces and trout fishing, you name it, I've written about it.
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The two-faced cookie that called out a lying politician in South Africa
When Coloured women were promised – then denied – both equality and the vote, they protested with a garish and sickly sweet biscuit.
View Feature‘I am prepared to die’: Mandela’s speech which shook apartheid
I really loved writing this deep dive into one of the 20th Century's most famous speeches.
View Feature‘It gave me a purpose’: Surf therapy transforms lives in South Africa
Waves for Change works with young people at high risk of ‘toxic stress’.
View FeatureWhatever happened to ‘cricket diplomacy’?
I really enjoyed researching and writing this piece - it taught me a lot about the history of India and Pakistan.
View FeatureThe nine lives of Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba achieved many things - not least managing to stay alive as long as she did.
View FeatureCissie Gool — the powerful anti-apartheid activist who battled the system
It's a travesty that Cissie Gool is not as well known as some of the other legends in the book.
View FeatureSeparate and unequal
To mark 75 years since the advent of apartheid, the Sunday Times ran an excerpt from Spoilt Ballots.
View FeatureCan you spot the phezukomkhono? (that’s Zulu for red-chested cuckoo)
A 10-year project to name all of South Africa’s birds in the evocative isiZulu language is finally giving a voice to Indigenous communities.
View FeatureThe politically remarkable Steenkamp couple who were thorns in the side of DF Malan
This story about a Namaqualand couple who fought against the Nats in the 1930s was extremely satisfying to write.
View FeatureRed, Red Rooibos
Really enjoyed writing this cover feature about the South Africa rooibos espresso that spawned a global revolution.
View FeatureWhite Rhinos and Black Mambas
A cover story on South Africa's only female anti-poaching unit for the flagship magazine of Rotary International.
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