Aspasia Karras is editor-at-large of Sunday Times Lifestyle. She has also worked as publisher of this department and has held senior positions at titles like Marie Claire and Elle.

Honourable feats threatened by dishonourable games

We're back in the news. By we, I mean South Africans.

HOT LUNCH | Transcending obstacles with meditation

On a recent Wednesday morning I drove into the barely contained, organised chaos of Joburg’s inner city, past the taxis and the crowds of morning ...

Queen B’s moment with a prince

Bonang puts the Capital P into pro and makes it look easy. Was she always this driven? Let’s find out

ASPASIA KARRAS | There was freedom in letting our yesterdays fade away

I keep seeing carousels of pictures of kids from the 90s on the internet, says Karras.

ASPASIA KARRAS | Frogs and the Great Tsek of 2025

The bottom fell out of the South African frog market sometime around 1969. Up until then a trade in the African clawed frog the Xenopus Laevis was a ...

Red tape tangles our vocal chords

To look at him, I can imagine a completely different trajectory involving a life on the pitch. He has the energy and physicality of a professional ...

The art of sprinkling fairy dust comes naturally to this cultural dynamo

Carolynne Waterhouse is a marketing dynamo who for more than two decades has used her role at RMB to advance the arts in SA through operas, concerts ...

Sublime thousand year tune takes the hum from the humdrum

My first job as a quasi-adult was executed in a highly enthusiastic fashion in a building in the middle of town. I operated from 111 Commissioner ...

A vibe girl whose every prayer was answered

Naturally, Kamo Mphela travels with an entourage — I would expect nothing less

Diet culture does your head in

A jab a day keeps the bulges at bay — if you can afford it