"The war also echoed in a dish I would try later in Tokyo, at a shrine and museum for fallen soldiers. Visiting in the early morning is best, before the tour buses arrive, and you can just sit on a bench and absorb the serenity that clings to Japan in general. The restaurant there recreates the dish served to kamikaze pilots before their missions. Called tamago-don, it is a simple bowl of rice with egg."

"The film comes on a historical backdrop that remains as relevant as ever. Where Indonesia is concerned, the transfer of Dutch New Guinea to Indonesia in 1963 is regarded as the end of the Netherlands’ 250-year colonial empire. In the past weeks, however, colonialism has returned to the headlines, as the UK returned sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after they had been colonised first by the French and then by the British in 1814."

"Durbanville celebrates its 200th anniversary next year. Its importance now is that it was in September the year before that farmers began lobbying for municipal independence. The result was a community that thrived, giving rise to, among other things, one of the country’s leading regions in premium wine production."

"We’ve gathered at the farmstead home of Sir De Villiers Graaff and Lady Gaedry Kriel Graaff, at De Grendel Wine Estate. Few families of the region have a history so well documented and strongly linked to significant turning points in Cape Town’s and, indeed, South Africa’s history."

"Standing at a viewpoint overlooking the overgrown remains of a phosphate mine and domes covering the dig sites, I was focusing my lens into deep time – a time after the first organisms appeared on the planet, but before our own arrival."

"The refurbishment of the lodge at Melozhori has put this private game reserve between Cape Town and the Garden Route back in the spotlight. I’d taken a chance, and wow, what a pay-off."

"I’d been in food heaven, jumping the past few days from Asian to Italian and from American Japanese to Brazilian. This was the Indian Ocean, so there were plenty of dishes with a Creole spin, too."

"If anything, Poor things certainly contributes to the evolution of our understanding of cinema, because it has managed what endless amounts of content on streaming platforms have been unable to do: it has got us talking."

"Plaasverblyf is dié manier om die omgewing op sy joviaalste te ervaar. Gooi jou swembroek in, laai jou fiets of kajak op jou dakrak, en druk sommer bordspeletjies in die kattebak, vir daardie lang aande om die braaivleisvuur met jou gesin en vriende."

"There’s a lot of pride in this hometown production, shot in Cape Town and the surrounding winelands. That said, there’s a universality to the story through its investigation of cultural identity and its many complex forms that will make it live among similar South African classics. Think Craig Freimond’s Material (2012) and Amy Jephta’s Barakat (2020)."

"’n Deel van die Nederlandse nalatenskap ten opsigte van hierdie onderwerp is buiten die spiritus se naam, ook die woord 'sopie'. In sy boek Brandewyn in Suid-Afrika (1973, Buren Uitgewers/KWV), skryf André P Brink dat hy die woord in ’n manuskrip van 1696 gekry het, wat verwys na Nederlanders wat graag ’n 'sopie' brandewyn geniet."

Die pragtige grasgroen heuwels van KwaZulu-Natal so ’n uur of twee uit Durban is ’n ongewone plek om rye en rye wingerde te sien, maar hier is uitsonderlike wyne wat al meer die oog van wyntoeriste vang, skryf Maryke Roberts nadat sy in en om die Midlands Meander gekuier het.

"Dit is altyd goed en gesond om jou kultuur deur ander mense se oë te sien en ’n vars perspektief te kry." – Saartjie Botha, direkteur: Toyota US Woordfees en WOW. Suid-Afrikaanse en buitelandse skrywers, sprekers en besoekers met ’n passie vir Afrikaans en Nederlands het aan die suidpunt van Afrika byeengekom vir die 21ste Toyota US Woordfees, wat onlangs op Stellenbosch ten einde geloop het. Met meer as 1 200 aanbiedinge wat oor 10 dae aangebied is, was dit die grootste fees nog. Maryke Roberts vertel meer.

"A cultural review on the topic of boererate (traditional folk remedies), going back to previous centuries, lists 8 705 recipes, of which 6% contain brandy as an ingredient."

September is Erfenismaand in Suid-Afrika en drie nuwe, merkwaardige opvoedingsprojekte waarby wynplase en gemeenskappe hande neem, het onlangs die lig gesien en vorm nuwe fondamente vir die erfenis van môre, skryf Clifford Roberts.