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We highlight the work of those accelerating sustainable living in SA – at a vital moment for the environment

Many memories make history

The lived experience of each generation and every person expands on the official version

Thinking: South African fashion designer Lukhanyo Mdingi not only produces top notch designer clothing but considers how and why he is doing so. Photo: David Harrison
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Mdingi isn’t your hype beast

Three years into a globally appraised luxury fashion business this designer is investing in honesty and environmental integrity

Outside a restaurant in New Orleans. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP

Déjà blues in New Orleans

The Big Easy is much like small-town South Africa — charming, with poverty in the back streets

Straight up: The author cares deeply about the planet and her staff but refuses to molly-coddle them. Photo: Issei Kato/Reuters

On companies and scandal

"If we can stay on the right side of the law and keep the books presentable, what’s going on at these big organisations?"

In 2013,  Gaiutra Bahadur published Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, which was short-listed for the Orwell Prize in 2014.

Coolie Woman and me

In the book, Gaiutra Bahadur traces her great-grandmother’s journey as a 27-year-old woman from Calcutta to Guyana in the British coolie trade.

Mango-red: San Francisco houses, among other tourist attractions, the famous Golden Gate Bridge, but there are other sides to the city. Photo: Robert Galbraith/Reuters

​Walking among unicorns

Facts about San Francisco are hidden; they are gleaned from trying to make sense of being there

A New York minute: Photographers Reatile Moalusi

A lens on a portfolio review

Two South African photographers were chosen to showcase and reflect on their work in New York

In December 2017 Pilato

Exiled Zambian rapper stirs the president’s pot

Pilato was forced to flee Zambia after dropping his latest track titled Koswe Mumpoto (Rat in the pot), which attacked the presidency.

Why change a winning recipe? There is no set recipe for a traditional thali but they are delicious and provide 
a filling meal that can be shared with friends and family. Photos: Russ Rohde/AFP

When tapas tap your wallet dry

It’s cultural appropriation taken a smidge too far when trendy fusion food becomes confusion cuisine that’s an insult to its humble Indian roots

Hugh Masekela: I’m the kind of person who goes on with life. I was one of the smallest benders of the era.

Goodbye Bra Hugh

Hugh Masekela: I’m the kind of person who goes on with life. I was one of the smallest benders of the era.

Dinika Govender

For Emilly-Rose, who is not old enough to read this

"People do not like to be outed, to feel shamed, even when they have wronged. It is more likely that you will be made to feel even weaker".

Find out what the writing process is like for writers BarbaraAdair

On writing rituals and routines

Find out what the writing process is like for writers BarbaraAdair, Jennifer Shinta Ayebazibwe and Zukolwenkosi Zikala.