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Iman Rappetti

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Iman Rappetti

Iman Rappetti is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and the author of Becoming Iman and Sermons of Soul. She is the owner of RappettiCom, a communications agency based in Johannesburg.

(John McCann)

Iman Rappetti: Saving your tears doesn’t save you

We are so adept at bottling our emotions and storing them that we ignore the implications.

Jamkaran Mosque, east of the holy city of Qom, Iran. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)

Iman Rappetti: The seasonal yearning for a ritual of a religious exile

My spiritual home is no longer Christianity and Islam but I miss the soundtrack and rites of my former beliefs

(John McCann)

OPINION | The catalytic prospects of hopelessness

Perhaps if we stop cleaving to hope and choose our dissatisfaction; realise the awful truth that the only saviour is individual and collective agency, then a different outcome…

Respect yourself, your resources of money and time, and deploy them wisely. (John McCann)

Are you being treated as a high value individual?

If not, it’s time you put some boundaries in place

Loneliness: A chain that melts the blood inside veins

An unknown woman’s death, alone and far away, inspires Iman Rappetti to sing her own confessional song, a cri de coeur for connection

Small businesses must be proactive in their tax affairs

There are numerous means by which errant taxpayers can start the new year on a clean slate

Iman Rapetti tells it like it is as she unpacks the true and unfiltered meaning of single motherhood.

On, er, motherhood

Oh, to have 18 arms and be self-contained!

The search for a partner: There are many people crying for love and companionship.

​Starved of a soft place to land

‘Friday’ profiles different styles of writing – this time by a popular media personality who explores two kinds of hunger

Grandmother

Grandmother, mother, martyr

My grandmother made do instead of making the most of, and my mother was a martyr.

‘But at the end of our visits

On our ill-conceived normality: An ode to ‘the mad ones’​

In the words of Edgar Allan Poe: “Men have called me mad, but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence …

The fatwa versus the fools

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. To many the bearded cleric is a menacing symbol of militant Shi’ite Islam. But to millions of his admirers, both inside and outside Iran, he is the…