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Review: A blistering run through a morally corrupt but likeable man’s life

Sep 25, 2024 | mg.co.za | Kabelo Maziya |Rodney Ghobril

Ask any male of my generation (40-something-ish) what the best TV series he’s ever watched was, and I bet the vast majority of them would answer The Sopranos. Like many other TV shows in its vaunted stratum, The Sopranos — broadcast from 1999 to 2007 — succeeded because it was a soap opera/family drama cunningly disguised as something else. For example: Breaking Bad leans heavily on the ersatz father-son relationship between Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.
Mthuthuzeli November: The next chapter in his dance of joy

Sep 23, 2024 | mg.co.za | Kabelo Maziya |Keith Bain

Long before discovering ballet at age 15, Mthuthuzeli November danced. He did it for pure exhilaration — it filled him with joy. Now, as a sought-after London-based choreographer, his greatest thrill is walking into a rehearsal studio knowing that what he does brings that same joy to the dancers with whom he works. Before ballet, he danced to kwaito in the streets of Zolani, the township where he grew up on the outskirts of Ashton in the Western Cape.
Wine is not just for sipping, it is also for employment opportunities

Sep 20, 2024 | mg.co.za | Kabelo Maziya |Aarti Bhana

As you indulge in a glass of South African wine, you’re not just savouring its bold, complex flavours, but also partaking in an industry that plays a vital role in the economy. From the vineyards to the bottle, the wine sector drives economic growth, enhances rural development and exports top-tier products worldwide, all while embodying the country’s rich agricultural heritage.
Human settlements Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi ‘won’t bow to’ construction mafia

Sep 20, 2024 | mg.co.za | Kabelo Maziya |Lunga Mzangwe

The minster said these groups take money and never do any work This content is restricted to subscribers only. Join the M&G Community Our commitment at the Mail & Guardian is to ensure every reader enjoys the finest experience. Join the M&G community and support us in delivering in-depth news to you consistently.
Baked with love - the story of a new Melville eatery

Sep 20, 2024 | mg.co.za | Kabelo Maziya |Charles Leonard

This is a love story. And it started by accident. Nine years ago, at the beginning of a long weekend in August, Ansie van der Mescht was driving the front car in a convoy of jollers heading to the popular Oppikoppi outdoor music festival in Limpopo. In the opposite direction, an out-of-control car came hurtling towards them. She just evaded it by veering off the road, but the car crashed into another one about five vehicles behind her.
Yvonne Chaka Chaka to honour Miriam Makeba at DStv Delicious Festival

Sep 20, 2024 | mg.co.za | Kabelo Maziya |Lesego Chepape

It was a chance encounter that would leave a lasting impression. In 1987 Yvonne Machaka, the South African rising superstar popularly known as Yvonne Chaka Chaka, was on her first visit to New York. By sheer coincidence she bumped into compatriot and close friend Ray Phiri on 42nd Street. He was in the US rehearsing for Paul Simon’s Graceland. “He took me to an apartment — it was Miriam Makeba’s apartment,” Machaka tells me during a phone conversation earlier this week.
The not so sober do’s and don’ts of whisky and food

Sep 20, 2024 | mg.co.za | Kabelo Maziya |Charles Leonard

For this article I did some rabbit-holing on using whisky with food. Three articles stood out for me. The Guardian: “Cooking with whisky: great ingredient or waste of a dram?”BBC Good Food: “Top 10 ways to cook with whisky.”Vice: “Can you eat yourself drunk?”It was in preparation for a dinner at the Saxon Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg.
Diary: Ardmore Studio’s Armoured Warriors, Nominations open for Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards, Javett-UP presents We, The Purple this September

Sep 20, 2024 | mg.co.za | Kabelo Maziya |Lesego Chepape

Ardmore Studio has unveiled its latest creation, the Armoured Warriors collection, a limited-edition silk scarf line inspired by the plight of the endangered rhino. With one rhino killed each day by poachers, the collection is a comment on its vulnerability. A portion of every scarf sold will be donated to Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary, the largest sanctuary for orphan rhinos in the world, to support its efforts in rhino rescue, rehabilitation, and conservation.
Farmers in ‘survival mode’ are depleting soil for future generations

Sep 19, 2024 | mg.co.za | Kabelo Maziya |Lyse Comins

Soils are being drained of essential elements that yield the nutrient-rich grains, fruits and vegetables needed for animal and human health This content is restricted to subscribers only. Join the M&G Community Our commitment at the Mail & Guardian is to ensure every reader enjoys the finest experience. Join the M&G community and support us in delivering in-depth news to you consistently.
Pravin Gordhan: Sound and fury surround the death of a quiet man

Sep 19, 2024 | mg.co.za | Kabelo Maziya |Paddy Harper

Thursday. I was a trainee journalist at The Leader with less than six months in the game when I attended a press conference called to demand the release of Pravin Gordhan and other United Democratic Front (UDF) and Natal Indian Congress (NIC) activists from detention.