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Info line: 0861 200 300 www.ratanga.co.za Terms and conditions apply The Next 48hOURS • Out & About Ikasi Experience to showcase a little slice of Khayelitsha Night time meanderings get a The first Ikasi Experience of 2015 - a teractively enhancing township per- creative twist at The Watershed township market celebrating local cul- ception on economic activity. ture and diversity and presented by Expect a busy day, filled with lo- Already home to some of Africa’s 10and5 to bring a photographic Ikapa Live - will be open from 12am to cal vendors from the township selling most inspired art, craft and design, exhibition based on the theme of 8pm on Saturday, April 25 at Lookout their goods and services varying from The Watershed at the V&A Water- “Unordinary” to Watershed visi- Hill, Khayelitsha. food and beverage to artwork, and front will continue its celebration tors. Curated by Between 10and5, Visitors can look forward to live lots more. With the likes of DJ Loyd, of local creativity with the intro- the exhibition will feature large- entertainment and performances, with SirVincent, Uno July, EJay, Ruffest duction of the Good Night Market scale photographs by both estab- arts and culture vendor displays on the and many more exciting acts includ- to Cape Town’s monthly calendar. lished and emerging local photog- day. Ikasi Experience aims to empower ing a live talent search, this cultural Housed within The Watershed, raphers who focus on showing the the community by creating a platform experience is set to be a great day out the Good Night Market will open world in an unusual way. “Unor- for local businesses to grow and en- for the family. on the last Wednesday of each dinary” will be housed in the east gage with potential consumers. month and showcase all things wing of The Watershed on the It also aims to encourage an in- * For more information, send an email creative. Each month, the market evening of the Good Night Mar- ter-cultural environment, conversely to [email protected]; or call 021 will go above and beyond a focal ket, with visitors free to explore all extending urban boundaries and in- 838 2929. Soak up the culture creative showcase, bringing live The Watershed has to offer. music, food trucks and a drinks Entrance to the Good Night bar to the space to entertain visi- Market is free, with food and bev- tors on their meander around the erage trucks available for visitors market’s offerings. to purchase refreshments. Décor and design to come alive at CTICC For the inaugural Good Night Market on Wednesday, April 29, * For more information, call 021 In line with its reputation as the Moth- decorated in the very latest products from 6pm onwards, the V&A Wa- 408 7840; or visit www.water- er City’s premier décor and design ex- from the Home Fabrics range of mate- terfront has partnered with lo- front.co.za. hibition, Decorex Cape Town will once rials and wallpapers. cal creative showcase Between again offer a creative showcase of the • 2015’s biggest kitchen trends, very latest in décor and lifestyle trends not to mention the very latest state- at the CTICC from Friday to Monday, of-the-art products and appliances, April 24 to 27. will be on show in the Franke Make Themed “The Home of the Great it Wonderful Kitchen Feature. Here, Idea”, this year’s show promises visi- Cape Town’s top kitchen designers will tors a wealth of inspiration in every- create four very unique kitchens, giv- thing from fabrics, furnishings and ing practical application to new direc- décor accessories to bold new inno- tions in ergonomics, greening, space vations in kitchens, bathrooms and Catch a glimpse of the latest efficiency and more. home DIY. There is also an exciting design trends • The most intimate and person- line-up of unique Decorex features al of all the rooms in the home will that are a platform for some of the be given romantic reinvention in the city’s leading designers to inspire with plan lounge and dining room leading Beautiful Boudoirs feature, where the latest trends. onto a home office and patio, the three of Cape Town’s leading female installation will present a comprehen- decorators will apply a light, feminine A few highlights visitors can look sive walk-through design experience. touch to produce a trio of the most forward to: Property experts will also be on hand impossibly dreamy sanctuaries for to supply visitors with the very latest slumber. • The Private Property Trend House, market-related facts and figures and sponsored by one of the country’s de- give them hands-on advice for finding * Times: 10am to 7pm (6pm on the finitive online property resource, and the home of their dreams. Sunday) dressed by three of Cape Town’s top • This year’s Designer Spotlight Cost: R80; R15 for children. designers is set to be a showstopper. showcase features Woodstock based For more information, send an email An interactive house-scape compris- Sarah Ord, who will put her trademark to [email protected]; or ing a bedroom, a fully fitted en-suite quirky-eclectic, colour-saturated de- visit www.thebereed.co.za/decorex/, or The Watershed at the V&A Waterfront bathroom and kitchen, and an open- sign style to work in an installation www.facebook.com/decorexsa. What is in a name? now” is clearly a lie, as everyone can some homework. We thought it quite and how that, along with one’s “fun- be in a mixed race class. Some names clearly envisage me typing away at admirable that the person in ques- ny” or “different” name, impacted on were then “foreign” to them, and to my keyboard at this moment. But, tion was doing exactly that, since, in our confidence levels. my disgust, the coloured kids would Encore a statement such as: “Buddhism is this day and age of global villages et I remember clearly when I first more often than not ask for “short- By Rafiek Mammon the only true religion in the world” al, we have Chinese names that have went to UCT as an undergraduate ened” versions of African names or [email protected] may come up against many forms of consonants that do not necessarily student in 1983, I was intimidated by heaven forbid, for “English” names. truths that will immediately oppose correspond with English phonetics, the white students. They had “bet- And, the African students would that statement, right? and Eastern European names with up ter” accents and seemed to “know “oblige” by giving their “second, rose, it is said, by any other But, that is not for here. It sounds to five consecutive consonants. more” than me. In tutorials I would English” name like Rose or Patience. name will smell as sweet. far too heavy for a weekend. And And, we were saying that still, to only speak when I needed to until I And that would take me right back And while this is true, the religion is the last thing I want to this day, 21 years into our weird ‘n realised most of them were all talk to 1983! And I would immediately converse may not necessar- argue about at my age. Friends and wonderful democracy, radio present- and no substance (much like Ameri- try to remedy that by asking the stu- Aily be false. Allow me a little leverage I got together last weekend and the ers still do not pronounce African cans). But for most of my first year I dent what he or she is usually called. here…or, as they say in the classics discussion somehow led to names, names and Muslim or Arabic names felt I was the “different” until I got If it is a name that the coloured – cut me some slack – and while you and particularly the pronunciation or correctly. And it seems as though over it and then my verbal cup ran kids or even I could not pronounce, are at it, also allow me to be a hint mispronunciation of them. It started they do very little homework in this over… then that became our lesson – to more philosophical than usual. On a with a friend’s friend who had to regard. In the old South Africa white When I started teaching at high LEARN about pronunciation. The shallow, surface level, the opposite read out the names at a graduation names, especially Afrikaner names school level in 1987, the kids I taught notion of feeling “different” and of a truth is a lie, a falsehood or an ceremony. Now, anyone who has were part of our (non-white) no- were all coloured. So, if there was of not respecting someone by (at untruth, right? It is all about logic. ever been to a graduation ceremony menclature insofar as it was in our any form of “divide” it would be on a the very least) learning how to pro- But, on a paralogical level, there are will know that there will ALWAYS be lounges – on our radios and on our linguistic level – Afrikaans and Eng- nounce their name, is what already varying degrees of truths.