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Aspasia Karras

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As seen in: Marie Claire International, Sunday Times, 30 years of democracy, TimesLIVE, Business Day, The Herald NMB, Daily Dispatch (South Africa), Wanted
Editor at Large - Sunday Times - eating a Hot Lunch and asking WTF is going on every week !
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Hot Lunch with Mfundo Maphumulo

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By Aspasia Karras 
| Wanted
Story audio is generated using AI Sitting in the downstairs bar at the Rand Club beneath a monumental stained-glass panel, I am struck by the insistent message conveyed by one of Joburg’s great monuments to gold-rush wealth and colonial ambition 120-odd years after architects William Leck and Frank Emley first set it in stone. I am having lunch with architect Mfundo Maphumulo, a man whose life began in displacement, and the irony is not lost on me.
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HOT LUNCH | A family ode to a woman of complexity

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By Aspasia Karras 
| Sunday Times
Amilcar Cabral’s famous injunction to “tell no lies, claim no easy victories” is the leitmotif playing in my head as I listen to the stories that unfold at the recent Wanted Wine & Executive Club Dinner at Fairlawns. My guests are Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela and Zaziwe Manaway, granddaughters of the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, whose new documentary, The Trials of Winnie Mandela, examines one of South Africa’s most complex and consequential lives.
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LAST WORD | Why today’s teenagers are terrified of being cringe

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By Aspasia Karras 
| Sunday Times
Story audio is generated using AI I don’t think there is any more severe form of social ostracism than that meted out by freshly minted teens to their peers. Infractions against newly defined notions of cool are severely punished. Is there any more withering glare of contempt than the one directed at those who had the temerity to beat their own drum or God forbid wear the wrong shoe?
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