fred hatman

I only have two comments to make about the tawdry tale of 36 Dutch stunners in orange shown the redcard by Fifa and arrested for choosing the wrong colour dresses out of their travel luggage. 1. For me, one of the off-field highlights of this World Cup was always going to be the, er, peach [...]

You’re going to love this. The Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging’s Andre Visagie sits down in an etv studio last night to “discuss” the urgent issue of farm murders in South Africa and, when pressed by another guest, not presenter Chris Maroleng, falls back to type and does this…. (please pause the video and let it buffer [...]

I’m a great fan of architecture and Buddhism so it’s a rare and total coolness when these two passions are unified as one. I love the diversity of the many unique figures of Buddha. And, apart from the sumptuous Chrysler building in New York, I’m mostly underwhelmed by skyscraper structures. So it was with much [...]

In the third of my interviews (published here every weekend) with interesting people who live in my hometown of Umdloti, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, I asked the Big Five questions of Vera Hindmarch, a clairvoyant and the source of great spiritual inspiration to many… FH: At what age did you realise that you had the ability [...]

We at Hatman Mansions are huge fans of extreme sports. Especially extreme cooking. Why, you should see the stuff that gets served up in the banquet hall of an evening. But I’m not here this evening to make you sick to the stomach. I’m here to make you forget that you have a stomach. Which [...]