Category: Articles

‘Love on Tu B’av’ competition

“Are you ready to celebrate love in the most enchanting way possible? Then listen up, because we have a competition that will make your heart skip a beat! Chai FM, in partnership with Kitchenique, presents the ‘Love on Tu B’av’ competition! Get ready to share your most romantic love story for a chance to win

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Pesach Recipes: Delicious and Simple

These recipes are courtesy of Adrienne Bogatie, our host of the Essen Fressen Show and use ingredients currently on special at Pick n Pay Hypermarket – the best place to shop when you want to buy a lot. Chrain recipe for 750gm = R1103 packets raw horseradish200ml vinegar/ ¾ cup7,5ml salt45 ml sugarPepper to taste,

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#SONA2022 – The Battle for the #SoulOfSA

I was expecting a massive build up to #SONA22 and I wasn’t disappointed.  What struck me immediately was the lack of hope amongst the anchors, their guests and certainly social media.  The same President who said #ThumaMina, the same President who waved in a #NewDawn was the same President we expected nothing from at all

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South Africa is paying price for excellence in detecting Omicron with discrimination

New COVID-19 variant is a time for science, not demagogues. Let’s leave the real decisions to them, not populists panicking and pandering to their prejudices. South Africa found itself on the receiving end of its own excellence last week. It wasn’t a new experience, just the rotten fruits of centuries of exploitation, overlaid with more recent Afro-pessimism. Our

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Bill and Melinda Gates

News that Bill and Melinda Gates are to get divorced after 27 years of marriage, hit me hard. Not because I know them, or their children, but because if any couple stood a chance of growing old and miserable together, it was them. These are good people. They have focused on philanthropy, try valiantly to

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A 12th century libel for a 21st century pandemic

The rise in antisemitism around the world in the last decade has been staggering. It has emanated from the Left and the Right, and from Muslims in both Europe and America. But with Covid-19, antisemitism has reached an unprecedented level of visceral, medieval superstition through the recasting of the medieval tropes against the Jews that

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The truth about Pesach

The truth about Pesach is that most of us overdo the food. I am sharing my thoughts on what we do to ourselves when preparing for Pesach. The story Pesach is a time of sadness for the Jewish people, we were slaves in Egypt. Pesach is also a time of great joy.  We became a

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Potatoes & Perspective

There are some advantages to war, famine and to illness. Limited though they are, they generally, at the very least, force us to consider what is and what is not important.

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The Krugersdorp Cult Killings

On the Confidential Brief on ChaiFM, we chat to award winning investigative journalist, Jana Marx, author of the book “The Krugersdorp Cult Killings”

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