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Lisa Johnston

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Lisa Johnston

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The small bronze rabbit inside the ear of the statue of Nelson Mandela.

Open routes to enterprise

Winner: Investing in the Future Job Creation and Enterprise Development Award Open Africa

Canadian singer Bryan Adams.

Health training where it’s needed most

Finalist: Investing in the Future Youth Development Award Wits Initiative for Rural Health Education

Ronald Lamola  is tipped to be the next president of the youth league

The assets of youth

Finalist: Investing in the Future Youth Development Award Columba Leadership

Willie Madisha

A ‘high-touch’ journey to success

Finalist: Investing in the Future Job Creation and Enterprise Development Award The Clothing Bank

Jérôme Champagne.

Giant jump to the country’s top 10%

Winner: Investing in the Future Youth Development Award TSiBA Education

Hundreds of small businesses have been able to blossom with Vumela’s help

Shot in the arm for small businesses

Finalist: Investing in the Future Job Creation and Enterprise Development Award FirstRand Vumela Enterprise Development Fund

Films on CBD rooftop

Cool Capital Biennale: A creative space for PTA

Pretoria might not be known for being the creative capital of SA, but architects are using their combined talent to spice up the City for its people.

Leafy greens: The garden-like interior of the Pudding Shop in Parktown North.

Peddling peace and pudding

Parktown North now offers an exciting culinary refuge from the fight or flight of city living at the Pudding Shop, writes Lisa Johnston.

The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Mainstream in Cape Town

Innovations for Climate Change Adaptation Award – Runner up: The Cape Town Green Map project

President Jacob Zuma ahead of his meeting with Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa.

Climate chaos turns fruitful

Innovations for Climate Change Adaptation Award – Winner: Built Environment Support Group: Greener Pastures project

The shipwreck off the ?island of Lampedusa in ?the Mediterranean Sea ?on October 3 claimed the lives of 360 ?African migrants.

Clever about food security

Innovations for Climate Change Adaptation Award – Runner up: Ackerman Pick n Pay Foundation community gardening project

The 25 Secrets of the Mona Lisa exhibit.

Da Vinci exhibition elicits mixed reaction

An international edu-exhibition about the work and achievements of Mona Lisa painter Leonardo da Vinci both impresses and disappoints.

Doing the wine route by luxury train.

Chuffed with railway’s success

Rovos’s long ­journey has been fraught with problems but the man behind it has kept the family ­business on track.

Hordes of people trying to make a unique photo at Angkor Wat.

Angkors, away from the crowd

Exploring Angkor Wat and Cambodia’s other jewels without being swamped by hordes of shutterbugs requires exquisite timing.

Feast at the farm

Danielle Strydom and Dany Krynauw serve yummy, mainly organic, food at their epicurean outings.

DIY for disparate housewives

For those without the workshop basics or the skills, there is a safe space where you can turn crafty ideals into reality

Befriending the enema

Sometimes it’s better to skip the cocktails and ladyboy parades and discover Thailand’s cleansing virtues instead.

An eye for detail:A Fine Line, the comprehensive collection of Colin Richard’s works on at the Wits Origins centre, shows the link to his early experience as a medical illustrator.(Supplied)

Humanity traced in original lines

The fine link between ?humankind and otherness is explored in artwork that resurrects its creator.

Sometimes it is necessary to go back to go forward

Back to the beginning

If architects saw cities as part of the ‘self’ they would create places that are kind to their inhabitants, writes Lisa Johnston.

Going nowhere slowly: Unless it is to the large sandstone church.

Life in a small town through Rosendal-coloured spectacles

The Free State town lives up to its botanical name, but locals hardly slow down enough to smell them.