Adelphi Centre News Today

RACHEAL,note-0 28, was a student in Uganda when her family found out she was a lesbian. In her homeland, homosexuality is illegal, carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. But punishment is also meted out by the community, with discrimination and physical beatings rife. Last year, the country’s president Yoweri Museveni said gay people were deviants and called the movement for LGBT+ right a form of “social imperialism”.

COUNCIL bosses have announced they will not go ahead with plans for a new school on Glasgows Southside.

Every Karoo town has its junk shops. But one person’s discards are another’s treasure. Trawl through these and you’re trawling through lives once lived, now gone. The journey starts and ends with the spices. They punctuate the roads and detours along the way. And there they are in my kitc...

Food triggers memories and takes us back to a moment in time long forgotten. Suddenly, when you bite into something you haven’t eaten for years, there you are, in your school uniform, buying a pack of smoked snoek at the Pick n Pay at the Adelphi Centre in Sea Point. As if it were yesterday. I’d eat every last morsel of it, even while still walking home along the suburb’s Main Road, pulling the smoky flesh away from the long, firm bones; to me, smoked snoek is the quintessential taste of ...