Born in 1984, Ziyaad Ally is a self-defined child of the ’80s, a creator influenced by the books he read and the TV he watched in the ’80s and ’90s. “‘Lord of the Rings’ was a big influence....
Eve Fairbanks, 42, is an American journalist and author based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Originally from Virginia, Fairbanks moved to South Africa in 2009 after working as a political writer for The...
DURBAN, South Africa – Durban Skate Park used to be the stomping grounds of some of the most gifted skateboarders to hail from the Durban area.
Thalente Biyela, Khule Ngubane and Dlamini Dlamini,...
DURBAN, South Africa – Malik Cassim is alive.
Although a stroke took his ability to speak, Cassim is still using what his wife Sadia Cassim calls the “gift in his hands” to help patients in the...
DURBAN, South Africa – On a chilly winter’s day in mid-June, a dozen volunteers gathered inside the entrance to the Pigeon Valley Nature Reserve, clad in rubber boots and garden gloves and carrying...
DURBAN, South Africa – Latte champion Vincent Majola took his first sip of coffee at the age of 18. At the time, he was cleaning tables at a South African coffee chain, Mugg & Bean, and said he knew...
RANDBURG, South Africa – Amid a well-known stretch of antique shops that line Long Road is the storefront for a company called Upcycle that makes the old new again.
Upcycle creates and sells a wide...
ELDORADO PARK, South Africa – Say “Eldorado Park” in the Johannesburg area, and many people will think of drugs, crime and poverty.
In fact, poverty, crime and gang violence are significant...
JOHANNESBURG – When Nonhlanhla “Noni” Moroenyane first arrived in Johannesburg from the Eastern Cape in 1994 as a 9-year-old girl, her dreams were about survival, not about cooking. Certainly, she...
ORANGE FARM, South Africa – Rose Thamae was once able to employ 30 people in the men’s division of Let Us Grow, a community organization she founded in 1996 to provide support for human immunodeficiency...
ROODEPOORT, South Africa – The volunteers weren’t even looking for Mama when they found her at an illegal mining site in Durban Deep, an area 12 miles west of Johannesburg that was once home to a now-defunct...
I’ve always been a routine-oriented person. I was the type of kid who felt anxious to get back to school after a long summer break because I craved the routine and structure of it.
My Google Calendar...
