In this issue

In this issue of Fairlady: Gwyneth on hallucinogens, feeling fake & building an empire; Shopping hacks - To bring down your grocery bill; Sleep - Tap into your circadian rhythms for your best sleep ever; In living memory - ‘This story is for every heart still beating for District Six.’; From Morocco to Soweto - Portia Mbau’s recipes from The Africa Cookbook plus 5 warm winter veggie bakes; Night shift - The best bedtime beauty buys and Lauren Beukes on her eerily prophetic new novel - Love Life.

‘HATERS DON'T MEAN ANYTHING TO ME'

With a ‘crazytown handsome’ husband, a thriving global business and a hard-won singular attitude, Gwyneth Paltrow is revelling in the carefree abandon of growing older.

9 mins

In living memory

District Six is a hugely painful subject for many ex-residents, still haunted by the memories of their once close-knit community. One of the ways many remember it is through art: dance, music, writing and theatre – in celebration and remembrance of who they were, what they lost and what they want to reclaim.

9 mins

Shopping Hacks To Save You Money

‘Money’s too tight to mention’, as the Simply Red song goes, and many of us can identify with that sentiment right now. Don’t stress – help is at hand. We’ve compiled a few nifty shopping hacks that will keep your grocery bill in check.

5 mins

choosing DISTRACTION

Pandemic lockdowns, mass unemployment, murder hornets… now that we’re living in an episode of Black Mirror, is it any wonder we’re cocooning in our homes, watching endless repeats of low-stakes ’90s sitcoms and baking banana bread? Now’s the time for some well-deployed mindlessness.

10 mins

ZERO WASTE

Plastic-Free July is here again! I know what you’re thinking – you have enough on your plate right now, thank you very much. But as much as zero waste is the ultimate goal, that doesn’t mean you have to either go all in or throw in the towel – every little bit helps.

9 mins

Men-Killing Viruses: Neon Nuns & A Sadistic Sister

What would a world without men look like? That’s the question Lauren Beukes asks in her new novel, Afterland. She chatted to us about bad timing, road tripping through the USA and how she’s coping during the Covid-19 quarantine.

8 mins

Green Scene

Choosing a Zero Bar rather than a bottle of shampoo or using a Spaza Store fabric bowl cover instead of clingwrap is about more than zero waste: it’s about incorporating sustainable items into our daily lives – and keeping it local.

7 mins

Circadian solutions for better sleep

Restorative sleep has never been more important – or more elusive, as anxiety around Covid-19 has us tossing and turning. But have we been searching for ZZZs in all the wrong places? Forget milky drinks and weighted blankets – research now suggests what we need most is to support our circadian health.

7 mins

5 Ways To Combat Loneliness

Social distancing may well be the new normal for the foreseeable future. For some of us, that means the only human contact we’re getting is with the masked woman behind the Perspex screen at the supermarket till and the UberEats delivery guy. And he just leaves your order at the door and dashes back to his car! Here’s how to fight off feelings of loneliness.

4 mins

Open Water

These St Francis Bay sisters are proving that you are never too young to make an impact on the lives of others. Abriella and Issataya Bredell have broken two world records as the youngest people to swim Robben Island and Cape Point waters, and they’re doing it all for the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital.

5 mins

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