If pottery is “a slow dance between the Earth and the potter’s hand”, as a writer poetically suggested, then for Sarah Munyai it has been a lifelong performance. She learned ...

Luck, the first-century Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca is believed to have said, is where the crossroads of opportunity and preparation meet. I wonder what Seneca would have made of ...

Five minutes after I call her to introduce myself and arrange a time to meet, Mitta Lebaka phones me back to suggest that instead of meeting at the Children of ...

Taped to the door of Professor Lorna Martin’s office at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is a cartoon of an enraged-looking Garfield. “Don’t upset me,” reads the caption, “I’m ...

For a woman with such feminine features Catherine St Jude Pretorius makes a surprisingly convincing man. She jams a baseball cap over her long dreads, hides her petite frame beneath a ...