Zanzibar: Exotic, inexpensive and only three hours from Joburg (Part. 2)

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Helen Grange jets off to Zanzibar, which makes for an idyllic tropical island paradise escape with its stark paradoxes so characteristic of our wild continent

Zanzibar: Exotic, inexpensive and only three hours from Joburg (Part. 1)

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Helen Grange jets off to Zanzibar, which makes for an idyllic tropical island paradise escape with its stark paradoxes so characteristic of our wild continent

A roadtrip to Cape Town with 2 teenagers on a shoestring budget

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Gift your kids with memories the old-fashioned way, by taking a road trip and staying with the locals.

Pretoria hotel is a home away from home

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Staying a while in Pretoria? Try the new ?apartment hotel? in Menlyn Maine, a home away from home, writes Helen Grange.

Midrand: SA'S crafted leisure destination

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Once a featureless plain between Johannesburg and Tshwane, Midrand has come into its own as a leisure destination.

World’s 4th largest model of Titanic built on SA soil

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Over the past two years, the quiet little town of Villiers has been manifesting something amazing – the world’s fourth-largest model of the Titanic.

Drones taking off in SA

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Because of rapidly advancing technology, drones are being incorporated into almost all industries. Helen Grange looks at the trend.

A passage to heaven on earth

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Helen Grange finds the perfect antidote to this troubled world of ours in the Venice of the East.

Watch VideoLights, camera, blooming marvellous (Video)

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South African landscape gardener extraordinaire Leon Kluge has pulled off another huge victory, cleaning up at the world’s largest indoor flower show, writes Helen ...

Raising funds through people

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Crowdfunding has become a trend in SA’s creative industries, writes Helen Grange.

A shopper’s paradise in China

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It’s hard to resist the temptation to splurge, writes Helen Grange.

Meet SA's own bone detective

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Our own 'Bone Detective' is finding out fascinating stuff about what it is to be human. Helen Grange chats to Brendon Billings.

Rajiv Narandas convicted of club murder

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Sentenced to 18 years in prison

‘Dead friend should have been on trial’

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The spotlight fell on a deceased friend of Durban businessman Rajiv Narandas during Narandas's murder trial.

Mom’s the word

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Mothering comes in many styles. Most of us have a little bit of a few styles. Helen Grange describes 13 stereotypical mother figures

The new flowers in your night garden

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They’re so useful, but solar lights used to be so dull. Now they have gone all whimsical and colourful, writes Helen Grange

Local designs with a Swedish bent

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Modern, sleek, multi-functional but quirky too. That’s the kind of furniture Candice Brophy wanted at home, so that’s what she has designed, writes Helen Grange

Summer tablescapes

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As the year winds down, you might be thinking of throwing a lunch or dinner party. Helen Grange brings you some tablescape ideas courtesy of the experts

We could not afford to retire

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Most people don’t want to think about their retirement and, beyond their company pension, don’t make any provision for it. In the end they have to work for longer ...

Hawking best of SA design abroad

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The country’s top contemporary designers have hit the gallery scene in New York, and will hopefully come back with a glow of appreciation, writes Helen Grange

How to protect yourself from lightning

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Lightning is a dramatic spectacle, and beautiful to behold. But it’s also lethal if you get close. Helen Grange looks at this phenomenon.

Should children be pampered at day spas?

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Treatments for kids are now on the menu at many day spas. But a psychologist says we are sending kids wrong messages by indulging them this way, writes Helen Grange ...

Narandas murder trial into fifth year

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The murder trial of Rajiv Narandas, the Durban businessman-turned-bodybuilder, has entered it's fifth year.

Increase in brain tumours alarm doctors

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Neurosurgeons report seeing a startling increase in the number of patients with malignant growths.

Court blow for Narandas

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Rajiv Narandas' application for discharge was dismissed by the judge, who said “There is direct evidence linking you to the crime. "