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GO BOKKE: Daily Dispatch reporters Rosa-Karoo Loewe and Anathi Wulushe inside the media green bus during the Springboks trophy tour around KuGompo City in 2023.
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When ‘book club’ becomes the Bok Club

Today, we have made so much progress. We now have vibrant club and international women’s rugby and you know how much I love it.

Creative minds at play at Cambridge High and Primary schools on display. Pictures: DELORIS KOAN
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DELORIS KOAN | All love from two detainees of the Eighties

School reunions are the crack letting in the light.

While supporting your favourite rugby in South Africa can be divisive, it can unite.
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I don’t need a rugby singles dating site

But hey, the game is indeed sacred up until the final whistle, when we find ourselves feeling absolutely drained, hungover and thinking about the work week ahead. And if we lose, it feels even worse.

ANNIVERSARY GIFT: Renowned natural scientists Dr Mary Cole and husband Kevin celebrated their wedding anniversary on Sunday with a stroll on a local beach and were rewarded with a shard which is likely to be a 383-year-oldo piece of Ming pottery from the Santa Maria Madre Deus, wrecked off the coast in 1643. But this will be checked back at the East London Museum where Kevin Cole works. Dr Cole retired from the museum recently after 38 years of acclaimed research. Pic DK
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DELORIS KOAN: The rinse-and-repeat secret of our city

Sometimes we just need to get off our dark cloud, get onto the beach and lie in the sun, and then get up, go into the surf then get back to our warm towel or just hot sand, mos — rinse and repeat.

WELCOME! The SA Revenue Service makes a big effort to cheer up the huddling masses as they make their way to meet their annual - or decade-plus, in the case of the author -- tax filing responsibilities. Picture: DELORIS KOAN
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Living in the five-star premier government queue

Today, I am in the government’s Formula 1 queue — the SA Receiver of Revenue’s office in Chiselhurst, KuGompo.

FLAVOURS OF FESTIVAL: Bronwen Makovini, bar manager at the Gin Boutique at the Hello Sardine Festival in Chintsa East, says seven styles of South African gin 'are going very well! We have had foreign tourists, a lot of Capetonians and locals. Plenty of feet!' Picture: MIKE LOEWE

To all those dreadful ‘tjoms’, we are still here, bud!

Making connection is hard. Breaking it, not so. There are scores of tired but happy women heading home as I write this on Sunday.

SOUL STORIES: Author Dr Marinei Nola Herselman has done a deep literary dive to try and uncover the social reasons underlying the Granny Grommet phenomenon. Picture: DELORIS KOAN

A sisterhood that knows greatest waves were always meant to be ridden together

Granny Grommets movement to be celebrated at Nahoon Beach on Saturday

Ebeth Ashley the tower of power behind The Stacattos. Picture: SUPPLIED

Please don’t ‘cry to me’, we are having a jorl!

You might think the revival of what the founders say is “SA’s longest running band”, The Staccatos (established 1961), is nothing short of a cultural miracle.

Dance studios showcased their talent and diversity during the three-hour-long production  during the Umtiza Arts Festival.

DELORIS KOAN | It’s fabulous but please curate this Washie marathon of dance

Dance should never become a form of doomscrolling.

BLEAK HOUSE: Residents hunker down as winter looms ominously with gales, storm surges and a little rain. Picture:

DELORIS KOAN | Clash of human convenience and millions of years of wild evolution

How to deal with raucous hadadas — and the worst winter can dish up

BRING IT ON! Yoga lover, ocean swimmer, parkrunner and beloved hairdresser Marie-Claire Hand has an exuberant finish to her run. Picture: ALLY MALLY

DELORIS KOAN | Hang onto your hats and helmets

I was your loyal observer of the storm swell which rose along with the full moon last week.

GRIME AND GLORY: The Buffalo river port of KuGompo retains a limimnal, other-worldly aura.

DELORIS KOAN | Grit versus grit out here on the pier of our lives

The waters are dark and green, full of mystery and danger. It’s scary to think of how I have swum around this orb poking into the ocean with someone called Joy, to whom we swimmers famously do not say ‘no’!

Motorcycling brought Alrose Vice closer to the sunrise, the bush, sea and mountains. This is Hetty, the writer's 1200  BMW GSA at Orient Beach. Picture: DELORIS KOAN

DELORIS KOAN | Fifty years of ‘independence, freedom and adrenalin’

Hairdresser and biker Alrose Vice still ready to savour the open road on two wheels

The writer, living in 'Podok Paleis' during the pandemic in 2020, was given a wild kitten as 'company'. This was the 'Little Baron' last week  living his best life in a cottage outside Salem.

DELORIS KOAN | Everyone can dance. They just don’t admit it

Dancing. So many people shrivel up like a walnut and say: “I don’t dance.”

Revered Eastern Cape endurance adventurer and writer, Kim van Kets, joined Joel Smith and gave him mental strength to overcome physical exhaustion. Picture:

DELORIS KOAN | Power of community was a miracle to behold, says spiritual Joel

Young man takes his faith and runs with it