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Freewheeling in Malawi: a bike, my daughter and me

Wanda Hennig — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:13:05 +0000

Bicycles, backpacks, a back-up van and a 14-year-old. What to do when you're the mom and you’ve never ridden a bicycle except into a bush? You bite the bullet. Knowing that for kids, an adventure in an unfamiliar place is an education. It gives a vision of different traditions, cultures and lifestyle. It also teaches obvious lessons in history and geography. Not to mention resilience. Yours as well and theirs.

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Michelin-star Master Class Durban-style

Wanda Hennig — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:46:02 +0000

When Alsace chef, Michel Husser, joined Alliance Française’s Sarah M’bodji in Durban, it was to share know-how gleaned from his 90-year Michelin-star roots with trainee culinary students. The city’s flavour profile hit a new high, writes Wanda Hennig.

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NSRI: Be Safe and Found

Wanda Hennig — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:22:16 +0000

Safe and Sound: Safe and Found. The nautical play on words that greeted our UKZN alumnus group at the Durban chapter of the NSRI, one of the most inspiring non-profit volunteer organisations in South Africa.

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Bee Nice: here’s the buzz

Wanda Hennig — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:21:44 +0000

Did you know that one-third of the fruit and veggies we eat are pollinated by bees? Honeybees and non-honey producers. And they are in jeopardy.

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Retreating to flavour and mindfulness

Wanda Hennig — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:48:21 +0000

The Buddhist Retreat Center a couple of hours by car from Durban in rural South Africa is a haven of tranquility and beauty where mindfulness and kitchen magic connect in a vast, poverty-stricken, harshly beautiful landscape.

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Corporate Cutbacks — Victim or Victor?

Wanda Hennig — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:39:00 +0000

I became a labor statistic the first time* at lunchtime one muggy Friday, just six weeks after beginning what had been "sold" to me as (drum roll here) "the most stimulating and challenging work opportunity likely to come your way in a decade."

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Why Vanessa’s birds take the plate

Wanda Hennig — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:31:29 +0000

Field to table, nose to tail. We journey to the middle of nowhere to meet the ebullient, down-to-earth, hands-on farmer who produces her poultry, from […]

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Loretta’s Coffee ‘Xpressos’ Victoria Falls

Wanda Hennig — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:22:09 +0000

Aromatic Zimbabwean coffee, elephants, buffalo, hippos, warthogs and the legendary Victoria Falls flavour Loretta Gomwe’s coffee success story. Imagine. You park your vehicle along the […]

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Wakkerstroom: dorpie of surprises and delights

Wanda Hennig — Sun, 11 May 2025 09:05:02 +0000

A French Canadian lured by a Canada Dry sign, a cheesemaker taught by a priest, a one-time diplomat with a bistro that hit the Top […]

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Bunny chow love, Durban’s gift to the world

Wanda Hennig — Fri, 02 May 2025 10:55:04 +0000

There’s no debate. Durban is the ancestral home of the bunny chow, writes Wanda Hennig. And a bunny is a bunny, not a kota. So […]

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