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A different kind of barre: Monike Cristina plays the role of Chocolate in the new ballet Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, based on Roald Dahl’s book, which is on at the Joburg Theatre. Photo: Lauge Sorensen

For the love of Chocolate: Monike Cristina’s sweetest role

But Monike Cristina, who plays the role of Chocolate, says grit and strength are needed too

The Chocolate Café returns to Sandton this Easter 

Young and old can get creative with chocolate in Sandton City from 20 March to 1 April 2024

Local farmers gather dried cocoa beans to be weighed before selling them to merchants in a village outside of Kumasi, Ghana.
(Photo by Jane Hahn/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Easter chocs may leave bitter taste

Chocolate products have become more expensive on the back of soaring cocoa prices, but there is not likely to be a shortage

The best booze and chocolate pairings

On World Chocolate Day on 7 July, experience chocolate like never before, paired with your favourite adult drink

Ivorian cocoa prices fall, planters abandon farms

Cocoa beans are piling in east Côte d’Ivoire because of an embargo, while plummeting farmgate prices has pushed planters to abandon farms.

The whiff of Easter

Chocolate’s aroma improves your mood and lemon in your car can make you a better driver. <em>Lucy Tobin</em> reports on some intriguing new research.

SA on alert for human trafficking in 2010

It is well known in the chocolate industry that human trafficking is rife in Ivorian cocoa farming. Stop the Traffik aims to put an end to trafficking

Sweet deal

Mercedes Sayagues visits chocolate baron Claudio Corallo on the island of São Tomé