Snow in Smithfield? In October? …

No, actually. It was a hail storm late yesterday and that’s hail heaped up around the witstinkhout trees and the gutter pipes. Very welcome after six months of serious drought. But we’re never satisfied, and now we hope for more …Share this:Click to share on...

Secrecy and the legal profession

READING court judgments can be a very depressing business; among the worst are decisions about lawyers who have ripped off clients or something similar. Take a recent judgment by the high court in Pretoria concerning an application by the Law …Share this:Click...

Want to know why Bloemfontein is called Rosestad?

Not hard to answer. Here’s the explanation seen in an exhibition at the Waterfront shopping centre in Bloemfontein last week: Part of an intricate carpet of roses on display   Individual competitors submitted roses in different categories A stunning variety...

Journalists’ patron flower now out in Smithfield, N6

Spot the difference: this is the first year that I’ve found the Harveya in a purple-blue colour way in Smithfield. The text books show a colour rather like a mix of these two, both of which were photographed in Smithfield …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...