Stylishly presented Cupcakes + Cowboys opens in Cape Town
The newly-opened Cupcakes + Cowboys store in Claremont, Cape Town’s quaint Belvedere Square is a visual feast, offering enticing quality Kiddies Décor and Accessories. The shop has been the culmination of years in the planning for owners Candice Whitton and Tammy Van Nierop who visualised the sumptuous, stylishly presented store way before it became a […]
Have you caught the ‘grey and yellow’ recently?
“You use the train?” she asked me, looking down her nose through her readers. Amassing me with the ‘them’ who relied on the grey and yellow carriages in the Cape Peninsular. I love the train, the carrier of personal worlds and private realities. I remember my first trip, the first time I engaged, not as […]
A couple’s journey into parenthood
Cape Town writer Lisa Lazarus doesn’t mince her words when explaining why she wrote The Book of Jacob—her joint memoir of a couple’s journey into parenthood. ”I wrote it because I was cross, in truth I was furious—the book really burst out of me,” she said at the recent launch of the book, which was […]
My Freedom Day triumph
Five, four, three, two, one … By the time our relay team eventually started the 7,5 km race from Robben Island to Bloubergstrand on Sunday, the suspense had become unbearable. Already the race had been postponed by a day because of rainy weather. Now, our 10.30 start had been delayed by more than three hours because […]
Matthew MacDevette, student and author, Cape Town
Where do you live? Not Australia. Does anything besides that really matter? How long have you lived there? I have not lived in Australia all my life. I cannot readily verify whether my mother traveled there while I was captive in-womb, but for my own soundness of mind I am willing to accept her “I stayed in […]
Kim Barty, Trojan Horse, Cape Town
What is your business and how did it start? Trojan Horse is a specialist PR and communications business. I’d worked in corporate PR for years and had always longed to do my own thing. Two friends started a brand development business and asked me to join them, so I waved goodbye to my boss, packed up […]
