Wanda Hennig
@wandahennig.bsky.social
Writer, photojournalist, co-active coach, culinary interests. Memoir matters... Long-time Zen student. TESL and travel. Living in Durban, Polish roots. Oakland, Calif is my second home. What happens when you say yes? Surprises!
Slowly 🐌 and hopefully (aka optimistically) surely 😌 proceeding with German lessons, Polish (pretty darned unbelievably impossible 😊) and because I never understood the point of it and would like to, some very basic math (mind-blowingly unfathomable). Onward and upward.
August 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Slowly 🐌 and hopefully (aka optimistically) surely 😌 proceeding with German lessons, Polish (pretty darned unbelievably impossible 😊) and because I never understood the point of it and would like to, some very basic math (mind-blowingly unfathomable). Onward and upward.
Wow. Trying to bribe an investigative journo. Must-watch video. #savingSA #scorpio @dailymaverick youtu.be/8mFOofR5eHI?...
EXCLUSIVE: Alleged attempt to bribe Daily Maverick journalist caught on camera
YouTube video by Daily Maverick
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August 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Wow. Trying to bribe an investigative journo. Must-watch video. #savingSA #scorpio @dailymaverick youtu.be/8mFOofR5eHI?...
Ah yes. Listen! #Mkhwanazi DID tell parliament first - and parliament, namely the DA folks now attacking him, did nothing. Four months later, he told the country. #saveSA youtu.be/lWAzzzhszLw?...
DA Joins ANC to Attack Mkhwanazi — DA’s Credibility on Oversight in Question
YouTube video by Trababalas MUBHUNU
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August 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Ah yes. Listen! #Mkhwanazi DID tell parliament first - and parliament, namely the DA folks now attacking him, did nothing. Four months later, he told the country. #saveSA youtu.be/lWAzzzhszLw?...
Essential reading if you live in the sub-tropics. Come to think of it, mozzies in the summertime in northern climes are probably just as bad. Worse? bsky.app/profile/theg...
Sweat, stingers and scratching: 14 expert, easy ways to treat and prevent insect bites
Sweat, stingers and scratching: 14 expert, easy ways to treat and prevent insect bites
Some of us seem to be bitten much more than others – and in unlucky cases this can lead to an allergic reaction or chronic illness. Pharmacists explain how to avoid the worst insects have to offer
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Essential reading if you live in the sub-tropics. Come to think of it, mozzies in the summertime in northern climes are probably just as bad. Worse? bsky.app/profile/theg...
How fabulous to see this pop up. Must have been '74 I saw it on the stage in London, twice during a month-long visit. The movie many times after that. #rockyhorror #cultclassic #brilliant www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
‘Everybody was fondling underwater!’: an oral history of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50
Mick Jagger wanted to play Frank-N-Furter, Susan Sarandon got pneumonia, and the cast were wet and half-naked most of the time. Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn and Nell Campbell tell t...
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:33 AM
How fabulous to see this pop up. Must have been '74 I saw it on the stage in London, twice during a month-long visit. The movie many times after that. #rockyhorror #cultclassic #brilliant www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
Someone who stood up against #xenophobia, here in South Africa. What happened to love thy neighbour, folks? #medicalbrief www.medicalbrief.co.za/anti-foreign...
Anti-foreigner group ups ante at healthcare facilities - Juta MedicalBrief
Despite warnings against vigilantism, the controversial March on March movement is extending its campaign to several other hospitals and clinics in KwaZulu-Natal, and elsewhere, in its campaign to pre...
www.medicalbrief.co.za
July 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Someone who stood up against #xenophobia, here in South Africa. What happened to love thy neighbour, folks? #medicalbrief www.medicalbrief.co.za/anti-foreign...
Such a way with words 😊 #emmabrockes ... #theguardian
Congrats to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez on the wedding – and to Venice for running them out of town | Emma Brockes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Congrats to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez on the wedding – and to Venice for running them out of town | Emma Brockes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Congrats to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez on the wedding – and to Venice for running them out of town | Emma Brockes
People power forced a change of venue, proving that a man worth $223bn can still fall foul of ordinary folk with pool floats, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Such a way with words 😊 #emmabrockes ... #theguardian
Congrats to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez on the wedding – and to Venice for running them out of town | Emma Brockes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Congrats to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez on the wedding – and to Venice for running them out of town | Emma Brockes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Unreal is here to stay. A reflection from this eye-popping and entertaining "think piece" on breasts... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘A marker of luxury and arrogance’: why gravity-defying boobs are back – and what they say about the state of the world
Breasts have always been political – and right now they’re front and centre again. Is it yet another way in which Trump’s worldview is reshaping the culture?
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Unreal is here to stay. A reflection from this eye-popping and entertaining "think piece" on breasts... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Exercise and what we eat ... can be so impactful... Interesting piece here reported in #medicalbriefs www.medicalbrief.co.za/exercise-cut...
Exercise cuts cancer return by more than a third – CHALLENGE trial - Juta MedicalBrief
For decades, doctors have recommended adopting a healthy lifestyle to lower the risk of developing cancer. But until now there has been little evidence of the impact it could have after diagnosis, wit...
www.medicalbrief.co.za
June 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Exercise and what we eat ... can be so impactful... Interesting piece here reported in #medicalbriefs www.medicalbrief.co.za/exercise-cut...
Cool Hue Café, Durban, owner-founder, Lindah Majola, became a TV "star" after starting out talking food and life on TikToc during Covid. He has events for "huemans" and taught his mom, pictured with him, to be his goat-specialty kitchen chef. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Hue Café: A hidden sanctuary of soul, spice and storytelling in the heart of Durban
‘Mine host’ at Hue Café, the city’s hottest new little coffee, culinary, art and music space, is a delightful down-to-earth actor-entrepreneur with a backstory waiting to be told and his flavoursome s...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
June 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Cool Hue Café, Durban, owner-founder, Lindah Majola, became a TV "star" after starting out talking food and life on TikToc during Covid. He has events for "huemans" and taught his mom, pictured with him, to be his goat-specialty kitchen chef. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Just published this weekend in Cuisine Noir magazine, my latest (current) commissioned article. The founder of FortiFoods is in Lagos, my CN publisher-editor is in Oakland, I'm in Durban. www.cuisinenoir.com/forti-foods-...
Forti Foods Changes the Fortified Foods Game in Nigeria
Through Adenike Adekunle's Lagos-based fortified foods initiative, Forti Foods, she is changing the game to help those in Nigeria who are food insecure.
www.cuisinenoir.com
June 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Just published this weekend in Cuisine Noir magazine, my latest (current) commissioned article. The founder of FortiFoods is in Lagos, my CN publisher-editor is in Oakland, I'm in Durban. www.cuisinenoir.com/forti-foods-...
#1000wordsofsummer I just saw mention of this on today's Nieman Storyboard weekly newsletter and am "so" procrastinating on the book project I really and truly want to be writing. Decided to make a personal commitment to do this, starting today, June 1, a day late, here in Durban, South Africa.
June 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
#1000wordsofsummer I just saw mention of this on today's Nieman Storyboard weekly newsletter and am "so" procrastinating on the book project I really and truly want to be writing. Decided to make a personal commitment to do this, starting today, June 1, a day late, here in Durban, South Africa.
What a travesty. Good to read Stephen Sackur calling out the #BBC in on this bizarre management decision to axe Hard Talk and him. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/24/i-feel-really-really-cross-at-incredibly-dumb-decisions-stephen-sackur-on-the-end-of-hardtalk-and-leaving-the-bbc?CMP=share_btn_url
‘I feel really, really cross at incredibly dumb decisions’: Stephen Sackur on the end of HARDtalk – and leaving the BBC
For 19 years he has held the powerful to account on a show that attracts huge audiences around the world. Now it is over. He discusses his anger with management, his pride in his team – and what he’ll...
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
What a travesty. Good to read Stephen Sackur calling out the #BBC in on this bizarre management decision to axe Hard Talk and him. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/24/i-feel-really-really-cross-at-incredibly-dumb-decisions-stephen-sackur-on-the-end-of-hardtalk-and-leaving-the-bbc?CMP=share_btn_url
Sanity in Times of Trump. #jimmykimmel #gratitude
January 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Sanity in Times of Trump. #jimmykimmel #gratitude
Whatever the failings of the ANC, we are fortunate to have a decent man as president. #collaboration #unity #cyrilramaphosa #davos #southafrica youtu.be/C8bTfA4Tk8s?...
Special Address by Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa | Davos 2025
YouTube video by World Economic Forum
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January 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Whatever the failings of the ANC, we are fortunate to have a decent man as president. #collaboration #unity #cyrilramaphosa #davos #southafrica youtu.be/C8bTfA4Tk8s?...
Reposted by Wanda Hennig
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, whose appeal to President Trump for mercy on behalf of immigrants and the LGBTQ community made headlines on Tuesday, was also critical of Trump during his first term.
Bishop Budde is the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
Bishop Budde is the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
Who Is Mariann Edgar Budde, the Bishop Who Made a Plea to Trump?
The first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Bishop Budde had a message for President Trump during his first term, too.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, whose appeal to President Trump for mercy on behalf of immigrants and the LGBTQ community made headlines on Tuesday, was also critical of Trump during his first term.
Bishop Budde is the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
Bishop Budde is the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
An interesting, enjoyable, inspiring read, I thought, this South African profile from Medical Briefs ... www.medicalbrief.co.za/unassuming-y...
Unassuming Yogan Pillay takes global foundation role - Juta MedicalBrief
KwaZulu-Natal's Yogan Pillay, now with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he leads HIV and TB delivery, has been an unassuming but key player in the national Health Department, whose work in TB...
www.medicalbrief.co.za
January 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
An interesting, enjoyable, inspiring read, I thought, this South African profile from Medical Briefs ... www.medicalbrief.co.za/unassuming-y...