Get a room: Labotessa Luxury Boutique Hotel
The Currency team are connoisseurs of fine hotels. We’ve spent decades judging the softness of pillows, the friendliness of staff and the fillings in
Art of the week: Phillemon Hlungwani
Never pass on an opportunity to spend time with Phillemon Hlungwani. Five minutes in and this acclaimed artist and born raconteur will have you
Eight questions for the interested and interesting: Tiago Sarmento
He’s the Mount Nelson’s GM, and we think his mom makes the finest pasteis de nata ever (they’re on the Nellie’s menu, in case
Art of the week: Jack Vettriano at Strauss & Co
These are perhaps unexpected picks to highlight in an auction of international art that’s peppered with works by global masters like Pablo Picasso, David
Eight questions for the interested and interesting: Mpoomy Ledwaba
At 30, the utterly engaging Mpoomy Ledwaba is South Africa’s biggest wellness influencer, with 700,000 followers on Instagram alone. Her first book, How Did
Art of the week: Jozua Gerrard’s ‘In the Present Tense’
Young Capetonian Jozua Gerrard’s art seems simple. Aren’t we just viewing pleasing images of figures that somehow feel familiar, and strangely normal and comforting?
Eight questions for the interested and interesting: Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse
He’s a man who needs no introduction – after all, he’s been keeping a nation jiving since the 1970s, and he’s showing no sign
Our podcast picks: October 2024 edition
I struggle to remember a time when I didn’t have a podcast blaring while washing the dishes, feeding the dogs, or lying in a
Art of the week: Brett Murray’s Fiscal Cliff and Wealth Management
Cast your mind back to 2012, when Jacob Zuma supporters protested outside Johannesburg’s Goodman Gallery in anger over artist Brett Murray’s, should we say
Eight questions for the interested and interesting: Khaya Dlanga
In the first of a weekly series, we shoehorned this well-known author, ad man and social media mensch into answering eight quick questions. Dlanga