My dad’s name was Albert. Bert for short. There was a reason his older grandchildren named him “Bert the Flirt.” He was a good-looking, enormously fit and healthy 90-year-old and while always a devoted husband, was an unashamed flirt. The years were beginning to tell, but he was still playing up to three games of…

My wife’s ability to secure prime parking spots is extremely annoying. She will land a great spot no matter how busy the area where she is parking and will smugly proclaim: “I’m so lucky!” She can drive to within a minutes’ walk of her chosen destination and almost always find a plumb spot. I seldom…

Before directing and producing movies including Invictus, Million Dollar Baby, Sully and American Sniper, Clint Eastwood was a Hollywood star and Oscar nominee in his own right. In his 1971 film Dirty Harry, where he plays Harry Callahan, a cop who doesn’t follow the rules, he has a bad guy on the ground and has…

South African brands are boxing above their weight everywhere and it’s apparent from mails I have received from many of you.   With his permission I have published an extract from UK-based Ryno Strydom to emphasise the point…   “After I recently, very nostalgically, read Tony Jackman from the Daily Maverick’s “Ode to the humble…