As I knew from my own career charting social trends for more than thirty years, I have frequently been…
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Billy Monk
`The strange life and bloody death of Billy Monk, smalltime crook and drifter, whose rowdy exterior hid a subtle eye…
Good morning Sir, my name is Christo, how can I help you today?
I chanced upon a place of unexpected enchantment – an international call centre. The call centre is a small foreign…
The Prophet Motive
Cape Flats preachers have found a thriving market for fire and brimstone, writes Lin Sampson. Preachers, prophets and pastors have…
Go Straight,Girl
Some girls will go to any lengths for their hair. Shaylene thinks of her hair as a disability, something like…
After Dark
Lin Sampson talks to author Erich Rautenbach, who remembers a vivid past in a South Africa long gone I am…
Pavement Special
There are new tricks and there are old tricks, but the Cashmere Queen is still plying her trade, writes Lin…
Clothes Maketh the Man
Why are these young men turned out like English gents? Lin Sampson looks at the amakrwala culture of dress and…
In the Pink
Okay, Lebanon has kibbeh (pine nuts, lean meat, racked wheat), Brussels has tomaat garnaal (shrimp stuffed tomatoes), Barbados has fried…
Boy Loves Grille
What Hennie Roux harbours for vintage Mercedes Benz cars and parts is nothing short of a grand passion, writes Lin…
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