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Aspasia Karras

South Africa

Editor-at-Large at Sunday Times

Editor-in-Chief, South Africa at Marie Claire International

Editor at Large - Sunday Times - eating a Hot Lunch and asking WTF is going on every week !

Articles

  • 1 week ago | timeslive.co.za | Aspasia Karras

    Hot Lunch Transcending obstacles with meditation 01 June 2025 - 00:00 On a recent Wednesday morning I drove into the barely contained, organised chaos of Joburg’s inner city, past the taxis and the crowds of morning commuters...

  • 1 week ago | timeslive.co.za | Aspasia Karras

    We're back in the news. By we, I mean South Africans. Not only are we sparring with the wolves in the White House but also defeating everyone in the world with our superior strength garnered over years of back-breaking training on the rugby fields of our great land. Our Rayno Nel won the title of World's Strongest Man after proving his mettle in Herculean efforts like pushing trains, pulling planes and tossing huge stones like a latter day Obelix, all while also doing his day job as an engineer.

  • 1 week ago | timeslive.co.za | Aspasia Karras

    LAST WORD I keep seeing carousels of pictures of kids from the 90s on the internet. A generic AI voice-over with a pounding internal rhythm surges forward with an intensity worthy of the kind of documentary that exposes all the truths of the Knight’s Templar and their sordid millennia-old links to the JFK assassination (joke) while a soundtrack designed to evoke haute nostalgia tinkles on repeat.

  • 2 weeks ago | timeslive.co.za | Aspasia Karras

    HOT LUNCH Queen B’s moment with a prince Bonang puts the Capital P into pro and makes it look easy. Was she always this driven? Let’s find out 25 May 2025 - 00:00 Queen B — OG of the “It” girls, the larger-than-life phenomenon that is Bonang Matheba — manifests in all her glory at Kōl in Hyde Park, her favourite restaurant (she eats here once a week), with an entourage and security (I would expect nothing less). ..

  • 2 weeks ago | wantedonline.co.za | Aspasia Karras |Thapelo Morebudi

    There is a delightful category of people in society who are born sprinklers of fairy dust. Scratch beneath the surface of many a grand cultural moment throughout time and you will find these enablers. They thrived in literary salons and princely courts, assiduously growing cultural capital and working out how best to spend it — but always content to stay out of the limelight so the artists and projects they nurture can shine.

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Aspasia Karras
Aspasia Karras @AspasiaKarras
8 Mar 21

LIVING OUT A BACKPACK by Alex Phillips on #SoundCloud https://t.co/FmIcxI4gp3

Aspasia Karras
Aspasia Karras @AspasiaKarras
15 Dec 20

SANparks: Open the Garden Route/Eastern Cape Beaches - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/Q0phXfqey7 via @Change - apply the same terms as in KZN

Aspasia Karras
Aspasia Karras @AspasiaKarras
10 Aug 20

I interviewed the fabulous Philippa Tumubweinee Head of School at Architecture and Planning at UCT - this is what she would tell her younger self - #beinspired watch the full interview https://t.co/gyzhlNDOGf https://t.co/x8C7YY0vgd