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Take a walk on the wild side

August 18, 2019by Lisa Pienaar Leave a comment

Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead is foremost on my mind I’m most of my interactions at the moment. I’m loving the book, and am probably starting to bore the people in […]

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Johannesburg, Joburg, Jozi, eGoli, home

August 9, 2019by Lisa Pienaar Leave a comment

My family’s roots are in Cape Town but I was born in Hillbrow, Johannesburg.  My young parents had migrated from the Mother City in search of gold, which is what […]

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Johannesburg, Rants, Reflection

May the odds be ever in your favour!

October 13, 2018by Lisa Pienaar 6 Comments

I had the honour of delivering the Valedictory speech for the Class of 2018 yesterday, a few days after our school’s 85th birthday. Here’s what I said: Good morning, everyone, […]

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Parenting, Rants, Words for young wizards

Farewell to the Class of 2015

September 7, 2018by Lisa Pienaar Leave a comment

Although it’s 2018 now, in looking for ideas for my Valedictory speech for the class of 2018, I came across my speech to bid farewell to the class of 2015 […]

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Reflection, Words for young wizards

Cube – a Joburg fine dining experience

April 14, 2017by Lisa Pienaar 2 Comments

If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of eating at Cube Tasting Kitchen, do yourself a favour and start saving up. Forgo all those crappy fast-food “meals” and stop pretending […]

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Entertainment, Johannesburg, Supper Club

Rainy day woman

May 14, 2016by Lisa Pienaar 1 Comment

It’s mid-May in Joburg and it’s raining. It’s raining like I should be in Cape Town or London. This is not normal Joburg weather. Then again, there has been nothing […]

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Johannesburg, Reflection

Delirium

April 21, 2016by Lisa Pienaar 2 Comments

I was privileged to watch a rare performance of Victoria Hume’s Delirium project at Wiser (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at Wits University last Friday. The project first premiered in […]

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Entertainment, Johannesburg, South Africa

Road Tripping

April 19, 2016by Lisa Pienaar 5 Comments

A few weeks ago I scored – my work gave us the three days off between the two long weekends (Human Rights’ Day and Easter) and I decided that since the […]

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South Africa, Travel

Claw

April 15, 2016by Lisa Pienaar Leave a comment

My nearly 14-year-old and her friend had to do some community service for school last term, and she didn’t want to do what everyone else was doing. I remembered that my […]

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Johannesburg, Parenting

People’s Republic of Noodles

April 13, 2016by Lisa Pienaar Leave a comment

I don’t know why it has taken me so long to get to Pron in Linden. I’ve been hearing rave reviews from so many people but somehow they’ve been open […]

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Johannesburg, Supper Club

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