"Are you still catching up on the amapiano genre? If you’re looking for a genre that just about matches your heartbeat, then it might be time to discover more amapiano. While some people look to classical music for divine inspiration, muses can also be hiding in other music genres. Here’s what I learned, following the amapiano beat from KwaZulu-Natal to Queens."

"Spaza shops power the economy, and they’ve finally risen to be considered by corporations and the government as an integral link in the larger supply chain."

"I haven’t become anything close to fluent in Zulu, though instead I’ve taken the language’s more scenic route and absorbed smaller bits over a longer period of time."

"Dragons appear to be a somewhat later addition to South African popular fiction, a topic that was perhaps willing to emerge from the depths of imagination more often as censorship lifted and free thought flourished."

"Netflix’s Bandersnatch is a unique viewing experience, allowing its participants to choose a different outcome at every scene – rendering a different, expansive way to interact with the storyline and its characters. The idea has its roots in the Choose your own adventure novels and interactive fiction, a genre which skyrocketed in the early days of home computing."

"A house with books will, almost always, also have fair access to at least a handful of classic board games – but what happens when books and music are switching to digital formats?"

"Virtual tours provide an engaging and informative experience, but without the physicality, cost or danger of visiting the actual location. Tourism can benefit from virtual tours through the careful preservation of rare, important and hard-to-access sites."

"Bitter, darker blend coffee drinkers aren’t the same as sweet coffee drinkers. There’s a distinct difference between someone who prefers darkly roasted, whisky-filled black coffee and the next person, who might ask for a simple espresso with cream. What does your coffee say about you?"

"The album isn’t just ars gratia artis (art for art’s sake), but aims to make a point about earlier, perhaps forgotten country and blues artists."

"Lessons in walking are important, he says, and he defines the difference between an authoritative strut and the confused, tourist-like walk. If you don’t walk like you mean it, like you belong here, it’s a whole different place."