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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.
We are so adept at bottling our emotions and storing them that we ignore the implications.
My spiritual home is no longer Christianity and Islam but I miss the soundtrack and rites of my former beliefs
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…
If not, it’s time you put some boundaries in place
An unknown woman’s death, alone and far away, inspires Iman Rappetti to sing her own confessional song, a cri de coeur for connection
There are numerous means by which errant taxpayers can start the new year on a clean slate
Oh, to have 18 arms and be self-contained!
‘Friday’ profiles different styles of writing – this time by a popular media personality who explores two kinds of hunger
My grandmother made do instead of making the most of, and my mother was a martyr.
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 …
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…