Intaka Island is an oasis of biodiversity, and a birder’s paradise, writes Jeanne Viall.
China is one of the few countries to have successfully integrated its traditional medicine with Western medicine. Jeanne Viall accompanied a group of SA doctors ...
Let your imagination run wild as you create a lush, delicious herb garden, writes Jeanne Viall
The new Biodiversity Garden in Green Point is a wonderland of local plans, writes Jeanne Viall
Author Patrick Holford has been been taken to task for his mention of research on vitamin C and Aids but he is is unperturbed by the flak he's getting, writes Jeanne ...
Donovan van der Heyden's art is his garden - and he combines his love of gardening with the youth project he runs in Hout Bay, Cape Town.
Exploring the borders, both real and self-imposed, that keep us apart and restrict individual freedom is the idea behind an interesting event organised by Maasai ...
Babalwa Mhlauli's Claremont studio is a riot of colour, every wall covered with her large and vibrant artworks. In the next room, paintings spill from the walls ...
Jeanne Obert has been in Cape Town running a three-day training seminar on the Matrix system of treating addiction, which is cost-effective, out-patient based and ...
Organisers of this year's Cape Town Book Fair are smiling, with 20 000 people having attended so far, more than double what they initially anticipated.
Legendary pennywhistler Robert Sithole has died, penniless, in a Cape Town hospital - a death that is just one more on a long list of musicians who have died in ...
He didn't heed the warning sirens, he didn't see the shark in the waters of False Bay: a cheerful Durban tourist is still trying to get to grips with the second ...
Italian Giulio Bertrand's olive oil - produced at Morgenster in Somerset West - has just been voted best blended extra virgin olive oil by the Italian olive oil ...
When tour guide Brian Nel decided to visit Sutherland to see the new Salt telescope, he called ...
It is back to school for thousands of children in KwaZulu-Natal - and some children were more ready than others. Jeanne Viall looks at the issue of school readiness. ...
Ramona Josephson, a qualified dietitian and author of HeartSmart Nutrition, Shopping on the Run, explains the importance of a nutritious packed lunch for your children. ...
Eighteen of South Africa's hunkiest rugby players have decided to do the "half" monty and pose for a restaurant chain's flaming hot calendar.
An addiction treatment centre in Plettenberg Bay has been forced to close its doors because of financial difficulties.
There's nothing unusual about white sangomas working in the suburbs. But how does a traditional healer with a Western background integrate her skills in a way that's ...
South Africa's indigenous healing tradition, which has sustained itself with no state funding for hundreds of years, has now been recognised by an act of parliament. ...
It's not often that a jumbo jet gets to wear a bandanna - but that what's happening after hundreds of hands spent many hours tying together thousands of bandannas ...
The guardian of a Grade 1 boy from Rondebosch East Primary in Cape Town has reacted with outrage after the schoolboy and his friends were given detention for drawing ...
Pre-school children are inquisitive, they are sexual and they will explore their own bodies and those of their friends. Where, as a parent, do you draw the line ...
The number of addicts being treated for tik abuse at centres in Cape Town has risen by more than 400 percent in the past six months.
The N2 in Cape Town has a long history of being hazardous at times, and until recently Jeanne Viall was one of the people who "took their chances" when travelling ...