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VISI-inspired day trip to the beautiful Bosjes Chapel! Definitely a wonderful day-trip idea and delicious lunch & wine at Bosjes Kombuis! #visimag #bosjes #capetownguide – @keziahhellen It’s a good kind of Blue Monday. Quick coffee and inspo break

WORDS JACKIE AYLETT I WAS BORN BETWEEN 1965 AND 1976, SO I AM REGARDED AS A MEMBER OF GENERATION X, a generation that grew up with information technology and produced Google, YouTube, Amazon and Wikipedia. I, however, inextricably relate to the trait

WORDS UNATHI MAGUBENI SOMETIMES WE FIND A HOME AWAY FROM HOME. I FOUND IT WHEN I WAS FULL OF ANXIETY, UNSURE AND SEARCHING. I had quit a corporate career a year earlier, cut up all my clothes and saved only two tracksuit pants, two T-shirts and a jac

IT all started with one old pallet, salvaged from a municipal dump, says Melanie. She asked her husband David to turn it into a vertical garden that she could fasten to a wall and fill with terracotta pots. She posted a photo of it on Facebook, and r

WORDS SHANDUKANI MULAUDZI WHEN MY FAMILY MOVED TO PRETORIA I WAS A FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL EXCITED FOR AN ADVENTURE.We lived in a small township called Makwarela in the former Bantustan of Venda, now Limpopo. My mother went to Pretoria for a few weeks fir

The first Block & Chisel shop opened in 1987. Having become known for classic designs and traditional woodworking techniques, the company is now celebrating its 30th anniversary. Siblings Paul and Susan McAdam, Managing Director and Merchandising Dir

WORDS THANDEKA GQUBULE THE REGINA MUNDI ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN SOWETO IS MY FAVOURITE BUILDING. IT IS GLORIOUS AND TIMELESS. ITS LATIN NAME MEANS "QUEEN OF THE WORLD", REFERRING TO THE VIRGIN MARY. It is the most significant church of black South A

We put this Spring issue together in the dead of winter as weather patterns were spiralling out of control in the Western Cape. That’s why we are all wearing black and wrapped in winter coats in the photos on this page (okay, not all of us). This is

Living in South Africa for five years, Anke and Wiebren Bergsma became fascinated with our local creative talent. So when they returned to the Netherlands, they decided to open a gallery with a curated selection of South African furniture, decor and

WORDS KAY-ANN VAN ROOYEN They say there’s a Swedish expression, den röda tråden, the red thread, that is used to describe the common denominator, or “the heart of the matter”. It’s an apt title for a book that brings together iconic designs from four

PHOTOS ESTIE-MARIE ANDERSSEN WORDS ASHRAF BOOLEY THEY KNOCKED OUT ALL THE INTERIOR WALLS AND STRIPPED THE FLAT TO START AFRESH. THE RENOVATION EPITOMISES THE OPTIMAL USE OF A SMALL DWELLING. Walking through Ruhan Simon’s contemporary-chic bachelor pa

WORDS MARY GARNER The sound-proofing panels designed by Ronel and made by women she has trained emulate the curves, lines and colours she experiences on walks in Table Mountain National Park. We found out more about the raw material that moves her, h

Floral designer Heike le Cordeur is the owner of Fleur le Cordeur, which conceptualises, designs and delivers floral installations and arrangements for weddings and other events, magazine articles, TV shows and more.“We started off doing normal-size