Aug 17, 2025 | depART
By KEITH BAIN “Yalla, Family, yalla,” said Medhat Youssef, not for the first time that morning. It had been an early start and although this was only day two of our tour around the country, our Egyptologist-cum-chaperone’s words were already a familiar...
Jul 23, 2025 | depART
By JULIE ROBINSON Julie Robinson is the founder of Inventure, which creates spaces and journeys (including four days in the Karoo) for participants to create space, slow down, savour beauty, embrace simplicity and cultivate joy. For more information, go...
Apr 30, 2025 | depART
A team of workers, architects and engineers recently completed UNESCO’s reconstruction of the Old City of Mosul. In seven years, thanks to the joint efforts of Mosul’s inhabitants and international solidarity, this multicultural city martyred by...
Apr 18, 2025 | depART
By BRUCE DENNILL “Let’s go and see the devil.” “Pardon?” It is the final night of a trip to the venerable Karoo capital of Graaff-Reinet, and with the end of dinner, the official itinerary is complete. Some of our party have retired to bed. Others have enjoyed a...
Feb 11, 2025 | depART
By DONAL CONLON We walk down a country lane fringed by swaying coconut palms and luxuriant vegetation through which the Indian Ocean can be glimpsed. I am walking with Das, who is a part-time handyman at a local hotel, on a coastal path in northern...
Jan 18, 2025 | depART
By DONAL CONLON Is it a mistake to return to a place which one has loved deeply and has had to leave behind? Possibly! But there is something alluring about the idea, even if you know that many of the things you loved are no longer there. I lived and...
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