“Think and wonder, wonder and think.”

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In this Top Billing exclusive, Nico visits the acclaimed author Wilbur Smith at his South African home. With about 50 years of writing experience and over 130 million books sold, Wilbur has quite the collection to show off to Nico. He shares some of his most prized memorabilia and relates anecdotes from the 1960s when he started out as a young writer. His work has been translated into 26 languages, he’s signed a ground-breaking deal to co-author six new books and at 81 he’s happily married, still travels the world and remains on top of his game. Find out how he does it and what his advice is to young writers while recapping his career thus far.

Photography: Tania Pehl

Top Billing's Jeannie D joins Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town where the Breadline Africa and the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation have teamed up to refurbish shipping containers and transform them into pop-up creches and kitchens.  We then visit the Cape Flats community of Heideveld, to witnessed the effects one of these ‘pop-up creches’, ‘Little Bright Stars’, is having. Our crew and staff get so inspired that they can't help but get involved too!

You can also contribute: Books, blankets and educational toys are welcomed via the Breadline Africa or Tutu Legacy Foundation websites.

Photography: Tania Pehl

A mushroom masterclass on Top Billing

Gary Goldman, the Mushroom Hunter and Craig Fourie, the expert in cultivation, show off their ingenious solution for taking samples from the forest and growing your own mushrooms at home. What’s safe to eat, what’s not and how best to cook them.

Photographs: Tania Pehl

*Content created by myself, influencers, and User Generator Content (UGC) at our Club Med Resorts in Phuket (Thailand), Finohlu Villas (Maldives) and Kabira (Japan).

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Vuyo Renene performance at Mother City Live 2016.

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Uno July performance at Mother City Live 2016.

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Tehn Diamond performance at Mother City Live 2016, Trafalgar park.

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Dope Saint Jude at Mother City Live 2016, Trafalgar Park.

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Kushelisa of Phresh Clique performance at Mother City Live 2016, Trafalgar park. 

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Behind the scenes of  Zika Crowned with  Salim El Bey for her film ‘ Buyani Bo’.

Styled by:  Kahvarah

Zimbabwean citizens in three major South African cities threatened to shut down embassies if long-time ruler President Robert Mugabe does not step down.

Reports indicated that the Zimbabwean embassies in Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg came to a standstill as angry protesters handed over their list of demands.

Cape Town. 2016.