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This is the spring issue, which means it’s time to reboot our optimism settings. It’s been a long, cold winter, not helped by stupidly frequent power cuts, huge fuel increases and scary food inflation, so it feels quite reasonable to be pessimistic.

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1 She released two singles (‘Monologue of Love’ and ‘Message of Love’) in Japanese when she was 16. 2 The lead in Heathers (1989) was written for Jennifer, but she turned it down. It eventually went to Winona Ryder. 3She idolises Meryl Streep. ‘From

Three months into the Covid-19 lockdown, I realised I had nothing to get out of bed for. No work, nothing to do, nowhere to go. I could dust, perhaps, or do some gardening. But I could feel a tension and a fear telling me this was it: game over. Work

Join us as we celebrate South Africa’s top women entrepreneurs at an exclusive luncheon: the eighth annual Santam Women of the Future Awards! International speaker and entrepreneur Jo-Ann Strauss will be our host as we announce the 2022 winners of th

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Leseli Creative leselicreative.co.za In the words of Nelson Mandela, ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.’ It’s this philosophy that guides Leseli Creat

OF all your senses, your sense of smell arguably has the strongest ability to conjure up memories. Unlike sight or touch, olfactory information is stored in your subconscious, where the message gets sent to your emotional brain. That’s why smells lin

SERVES 10 Do not be tempted to overbake this delicious vegan pie! FOR THE CRUST • 200 g (385 ml) cake wheat flour• 5ml (1 tsp) salt• 30 ml (2 tbsp) icing sugar• 150 g vegan butter or vegetable shortening• 60 ml (4 tbsp) ice-cold water• 15 ml (1 tbsp)

Wearing a delicate matching set of lingerie, whether it’s to the office or for a special night out, can give you a confidence boost. The Takkleberry collection, made by a small team of women in Cape Town, has a pretty pair for every day of the week.

Solution on page 183 NB In these puzzles, each letter of the alphabet has been replaced with a number. You need to decide which letter is represented by which number. To start you off, we reveal the codes for a few letters. With these letters filled

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MY mother is hunched over her sewing machine, concentrating furiously. She’s about to turn 90 – or, as my friend Mark calls it, ‘sixty-and-a-half’. ‘That looks lovely,’ I say encouragingly. Always a good thing for the elderly to have a nice hobby, I

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