Interior decorator, Nicci Freeman, launched her Brannic Interiors website in Australia this week. With her years of experience working for a range of clients in South Africa, Nicci brings an exciting new element to Brisbane’s interior decorating scene. Her love of fabrics and textures, and above all, her ability to transform a home into a sumptuous […]
Transport problems during South Africa’s World Cup could well be alleviated by a dynamic new public transport system called Overground. Operating in the Western Cape (Cape Town, Franschhoek, George, Hermanus, Kleinmond, Knysna, Paarl, Plettenberg Bay, Somerset West, and Stellenbosch etc…), it is described as: “a South African transport solution that enables any one of us […]
JournoNews caught up with former New Zealand Police Officer, Tracy Scott, now working as a Child Safety Officer, to find out about her valuable role engaging families in the Brisbane community. What made you choose your profession? I had a desire to help people in the community to change their circumstances and be able to […]
Tell us about your most recent work, ‘Patmos and the War at Sea’, dedicated to your late brother, Ronald James Whitton. The Patmos Project is an intensely layered one that essentially considers the way in which we see or rather fail to see parallel worlds and landscapes. The works also contemplate processes of interpretation and […]
Forget the Sydney Opera House, Bondi Beach and even the thrill of being in this stunning city during the famous New Year’s Eve fireworks. It’s a celebrity sighting that got my daughter’s vote. “I’ve just seen ‘Stretch’ from The Fantastic Four and he said hello!” she beamed, hardly able to contain her glee at seeing […]
Levi’s house burns down, his fiancé dumps him for the nunnery and he gets fired from his job – all in quick succession. When his long lost brother requests that he join him in India post-haste, he does so without hesitation – he doesn’t have a lot going for him back home and the adventure […]
I’ve done it. I’ve taken the radical step to take ‘them’ off. Not just hide ‘them’ … I deleted ‘them’. ‘They’ve’ gone. And I can honestly say I feel better for having done it. I’m talking about the email, Twitter and Facebook applications I’ve had on my BlackBerry for the past few years. I had become […]
A worthwhile read this Christmas is Don Watson’s book, BENDABLE LEARNINGS: THE WISDOM OF MODERN MANAGEMENT. ‘Watson returns to his study of management language: the non-language that began in management theory and spread like an ineradicable weed into politics, the civil service, hospitals and classrooms.’ If you’re accustomed to management language or operate in the […]
We have an abundance of holy silver beet in our vegetable patch. Holy not in a religious sense, but rather that it has been nibbled with gay abandon by an extended family of tiny, apple green grasshoppers. The fact that it is holy in no way impacts on its taste, or the frequency in […]
www.aussieactually.co.za South African born, Lois Nicholls and her daughter Lara, have produced a book on the trials and tribulations of emigrating to Australia from South Africa. Called Aussie, actually, the book is an honest and humorous account of life as new Australians. “My intention was to relay our 12-year sojourn through a series of thoughts […]
