From Spartan feasts to Sunday brunches, the way we eat has transformed since our hunter-gatherer ancestors first shared meals around the hearth.
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Lenten traditions emphasise fasting, prayer and charitable giving. This aligns with tarrying as central to communal spiritual life.
Paradise Estate is a good-humoured depiction of the travails of share-house living, with a political edge.
Nurturing your gut microbiome can go hand in hand with nurturing your social community, with health benefits all around.
Peddlers of dangerous ideas regarding the constitution should be reminded of what was done in the name of a legislative majority under apartheid.
The main reason land reform in South Africa has been lethargic is not the Constitution, but a flawed approach.
The Whole Earth Catalog was a blueprint for sustainability that envisioned humans living in balance with nature. Its creative spirit was welcomed in a year riven by war, assassinations and riots.
The share house may be taken for granted now, but before the late 1960s it was hard for women to live independently of families or husbands. For some, communal housing was life-changing.
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