#Gauteng52, Week 23: Food Junxion

08 June 2017

Welcome to Week 23 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I will visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week I visit Food Junxion, a take-away restaurant in downtown Johannesburg.

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A Magical Visit to Master Mansions

04 June 2017

A couple of weeks ago I attended the book launch for Master Mansions. Master Mansions is the eighth in a ten-book series called “Wake Up, This is Joburg”: written by Tanya Zack, photographed by Mark Lewis, and published by Fourthwall Books.

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11 Spectacular Views in Stellenbosch

16 May 2017

I recently received an invitation to participate in a blogging campaign called #Stellenblog. #Stellenblog is an annual weeklong event in which bloggers/social media influencers from around South Africa and the world go to Stellenbosch – a university town outside Cape Town that is the center of South Africa’s wine industry – and hang around eating/drinking/having fun.

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#Gauteng52, Week 19: Where Basotho Blankets Are Made

09 May 2017

Welcome to Week 19 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I will visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week I visit Aranda Textile Mills, home of the Basotho blanket.

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#Gauteng52, Week 18: Tswaing Meteorite Crater

01 May 2017

Welcome to Week 18 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I will visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week I visit the Tswaing Meteorite Crater.

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In Transit: Hillbrow Above and Below

28 March 2017

I’m about to leave South Africa for a few weeks, which always makes me feel weird. I woke up in a strange, sad mood today, mourning everything about the state of the world. I recognize the feeling now – it’s pre-transit melancholy. (Although there really are a lot of crappy things happening in the world right now, too.)

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