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HOT LUNCH | From Joburg gangs to ‘responsible kindness’ (opens the original)
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Marc Lubner tells me he was 12 years old when he discovered that the safest way to survive Johannesburg was to join as many gangs as possible. Newly arrived from Bulawayo and living in Waverley, he exchanged a childhood of “short pants, my dog, my bicycle and the veld in front of me” for a considerably more combative city. His strategy worked until, inevitably, it did not. After a friend was badly stabbed at a party and he walked away with a lifelong scar etched across his skull, his friend’s fa
LAST WORD | Dolly Parton: the saint and the singer (opens the original)
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If there ever was a candidate for full-blown canonisation in the US it’s sure to be one Ms Dolly Rebecca Parton. There are many, many points in her favour and I fully intend to submit this application to Pope Leo XIV forthwith. I looked up other American Saints and, to be fair, they were all Catholics which, notwithstanding the trending aspect of the religion right now — huge swathes of young people and JD Vance are all picking team Rome for their spiritual advancement — should not stand in the
LAST WORD | Reshaping our minds for a future of servitude and handouts (opens the original)
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For a long time, I suspect my niece believed I was a digital entity — a disembodied head that lived in the phone. In her mind, I only existed if you switched me on. Admittedly, I was a fun aunt, a little more interactive than Peppa Pig or that Baby Shark song which was very popular (much to her parents’ despair) when she was just a tiny sprog. I guess I was on a par with Alexa, whom she imperiously ordered around and who obliged with endless rounds of the aforementioned Baby Shark. My niece live
HOT LUNCH | A little girl’s big dreams come true (opens the original)
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You may have first met the poet Botlhale Boikanyo with the rest of the country as the impossibly self-possessed 11-year-old who became the first spoken-word artist to compete on South Africa’s Got Talent. The standing ovations, cameras and international travel all came before adolescence and matric and before most teenagers ever board their first plane. Chatting to the sparkly, considered 25-year-old I meet now, I am struck with the thought that the clichéd outcomes for child prodigy evolution w
HOT LUNCH | The journey that changed everything (opens the original)
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If, as literary scholars argue, there are only a handful of stories in the world, then Trésor Riziki’s is one of the oldest: the hero’s journey. It has all the elements of an epic — reluctant departure, impossible trials, unlikely allies, profound loss and a triumphant return. Running through it all is the redemptive power of music. He shares his story with an audience at Wanted’s Wine & Executive Club at Fairlawns, and for a moment it feels like an ancient banquet, a bard weaving an old tale of
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