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The Weekend Scorecard 19 – 21 September 2025
The Synopsis Pressure makes diamonds and diamonds shine forever. Sunday, 21 September 2025 was an historic day for Botswana’s 4 x 400m relay team of Lee Bhekempilo Eppie, Letsile Tebogo, Bayapo Ndori and Busang Collen Kebinatshipi as Kebinatshipi came from behind to edge past Nene (South Africa) and Benjamin (USA) to clinch victory at the…
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The Weekend Scorecard: 12 – 14 September 2025
The Synopsis September 13, 2025 ushered in the new, Ring Magazine and Undisputed Super Middleweight Champion of the World, Terrence “Bud” Crawford. Destiny in sports, that unexplainable force which seems to script outcomes beyond logic, appears to have played its hand once again. Because legend has it that when Terrence was born, he came out…
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Tirikumhanya na Mwari: Kundiona’s French Chapter
Any student of Falcon College schoolmaster and respected historian, Dave Grant, can remember these words being uttered more than once in Room 1, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” How is that possible? Surely change, by virtue of its nature alters the status quo. Well, it took an hour and 45…
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Podcast Episode 6: The Bellwether Origin story and a panel discussion with Namibian Youtuber Kovii Muruko
The long awaited episode 6 ! This is a special one because it was our first interactive episode recorded live in the presence of an awesome crowd at the UCT Student Y. In this episode we talk about why we started the Bellwether Digest and Podcast. We discuss the vision for the magazine and ultimately…
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What is “good coffee”? A local man’s perspective
When you shift from drinking Ricoffy to developing an appreciation for filter coffee or “real coffee” as the snobs would like to put it, one feels like they are moving up the social ladder. I remember my first time. I was sleeping at a friend’s house and woke up to what I assumed were the…
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Journey through the Abstract – Art by Tamlyn Che’ Mthethwa
The great Polish-American noveslit Jerzy Kosinski is quoted for saying these famous words, “The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” In this article on the Bellwether, we are delighted to announce the Winter Group Show exhibition, which will feature and celebrate…
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Podcast Episode #5: Chantel Maina
Welcome back to our loyal listeners ! This month we are joined by Chantel Maina. A distinguished and accomplished UCT student. She completed Matric with 7 distinctions from Kingsmead College in 2018. She is months away from graduating with an Actuarial Science degree, all while running her own high school tutoring company called, Whiztutors. We…
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#Support Local: Panache Design and Architects
Luxurious mansions, private beach condos and tiny mobile homes all have one thing in common: They were all just a drawing on a piece of paper at some point. Thereafter, brick by brick, they were built and brought to life: The manifestation of imagination. They also point to another reality, which is that everyone desires…
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Podcast #3: Trauma and posttraumatic growth in the lives of sex trafficking victims with Dr Heather Evans
Dr. Heather Evans is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Director of Evans Counseling Services LLC, a private group counseling practice in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania. She has over 20 years of clinical experience, with a specialization in women’s issues, particularly sexual trauma, sex trafficking, and aftercare of its victims. Heather received a Doctor of Clinical Social Work…
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Women in leadership: Karen Nelson
A person’s success is often measured by how much money they have made, their net worth, real estate portfolio and any other such material possessions that they have amassed over the years. Maybe that is too materialistic a view of success to be palatable for some of you. Some prefer to measure success by the…