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Is Cape Town as welcoming as we think?

Cape Town has won its fair share of international accolades – for its extraordinary natural beauty, its lifestyle and, most recently, Time Out magazine’s Best City in the World...

What is restorative justice?

DANIEL BLOCH, Exec. Director, Cape SAJBD Restorative justice is an approach to conflict and crime that focuses on repairing...

Why I’m voting

I once asked someone whether she was going to vote and she replied, with great confidence, “I don’t...

One email, one people, one heart 

By SIMONE SULCAS, Chairperson Cape SAJBD This Rosh Hashanah again feels different in our house.For the past four years,...

The other side of repentance

Growing up, Rosh Hashanah meant the warmth of family. Aunts and uncles, cousins and the occasional friend would...

Lindy with a why – Why aren’t we more worried about the drought?

It took a South African retail giant to remind me that we are in the midst of the worst drought in over 30 years. Until...

Using my Nudel – A dummies’ guide to becoming a dictator

Politics. It’s always been the same. People grasping for power, others holding on to democratic principles. The war between dictatorship and democracy is not...

Lindy with a why – Why I don’t live in the present

The future. A time full of the results of my good planning and my better luck. A time where the potential for me to...

Lindy with a why – Why not making mistakes is the biggest mistake of all

Last month I clean forgot the birthday party of a good friend’s child. The party had been finished for a full hour before I...

Lindy with a why – Why akrasia, covert racism and the single story are breaking our country

New Year’s Resolutions. Many of us create them in the fresh-eyed optimism of a new year, only to relegate them, dusty and unfulfilled to...

Lindy with a why – Why not rocks and paper?

I had trouble deciding which part of the last two weeks to write about in my final column for 2015. I sit here looking...

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