In the cold winter sunshine, colours burst, flavours are accentuated, and the world seems a better place because the Karoo is in it.

For one magical afternoon, the streets of Hillbrow in Johannesburg were filled with otherworldly creations as a musical parade moved through in black and white. The event, coordinated by Shade Brixton ...

Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap and its City Bowl are home to the oldest mosques in the country and, well, rampant Islamophobia. Notions of exceptionalism (and indeed of exclusivity) are precisely what is driving ...

A year ago, my editor Tony Jackman asked me to write a regular column, the K@k Cook, about my kitchen experiments that often ended in disaster. Today, after many successes in the kitchen, I’m proud to ...

Fish finished in the oven with a gratin of onions and cheese is a splendid thing, and one of my prized memories of the home food of my youth.