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I am going to hold on tight to the jubilant feeling in my heart
…writes Nadine Khan, surveying the wonders of a month that told the world: it’s time to believe in South Africa.
Category: Nadine Khan
Cry the beloved vuvuzela!
On the vuvuzela, Alan Paton, and how he might respond to the nation’s trumpet.
And how was the evening otherwise? A real treat!
For the indomitable Nadine Khan, the agony of Bafana’s defeat did nothing to dull the excitement of the occasion.
Giving me the shirt off his back
The kindness of a typical South African imbued with the spirit of ubuntu saves Nadine Khan from the the fashion gaffe of not wearing her Bafana shirt on Friday.
The highest of high teas
On a crisp autumn afternoon, a fabulous new friend takes Nadine Khan to tea at the Westcliff Hotel overlooking the leafy northern suburbs of Johannesburg.
Feva!
People everywhere are pimping their rides with car flags waving from windows, bandanas hanging from rear-view mirrors, or the innovative Mini Cooper mirror socks on every make of car, old and new.
Get ready for the mother of all patriotic traffic jams
It’s another Football Friday and South Africans are at it again. This time our proud nation will attempt to enter the record books for “the longest parade of privately owned vehicles displaying the national flag”.
What’s for lunch?
Mimmos the Italian family restaurant has once again teamed up with the Rude Awakening team from 94.7 Highveld Stereo to bring you the Mimmos’s Moroccan pizza – the pizza in aid of charity.
Wired
IMC’s Nadine Khan meets a menagerie of wire and bead animals on her lunch break and talks to its creators.
20 Years On
A very personal reflection on how Nelson Mandela’s walk to freedom 20 years ago on February 11 transformed the life and prospects of a young Afrikaner.
Football Fever is Real!
I start to relax and look out the window at my fellow, and sister, motorists. For the first time I notice the beautiful colours of their various football shirts. Brazil, Spain and Portugal are among the favourites.
Skepticism breeds solutions in a paradoxical nation
Spend some time with a South African, simply engage in casual conversation and see the impossible become the possible.
Inspired
By Nadine Khan on Dec 13, 2009 in Art, Creativity, Events, Featured, Lives, Nadine Khan, Observations, People
I challenge you to take a fresh look at our amazing Mzanzi. Go on a journey, find the possibilities and who knows you might just like Kahn Morbee – “.. be thinking of a time I felt inspired.”
Friday Football Fever hits Tshwane!
By Nadine Khan on Dec 06, 2009 in Nadine Khan
Celebrities take on the Media – on the football “pitch”. Hundreds of people descended on Sammy Marks Square in Tshwane today to celebrate Football Friday – Mzansi style.
Makro makes it better.
On a shopping trip to Makro, a well known mass merchandiser and cash and carry operator, I had one of those moments that can really ruin your day.
Noisy Nation
Noise has been in the South African news, from the mangling of our national anthem in Toulouse to complaints about our beloved vuvuzelas.
