Author: Ishay Govender-Ypma
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A Love Letter to Durban, the Flawed & Charming City of My Birth
For all its island-style humidity and drone-sized mosquitos, Durban is, for those of us who left our childhoods there, entwined with our sense of identity.
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Food is a Time Machine That Whisks Us Back to Our Childhood
The aroma of ghee or butter melting on a hot pan tends to take me to this place – my mother’s kitchen in Pietermaritzburg, on the days we didn’t have bread in the house when she’d make a stack of rotis, or in my father’s words: “hand-made bread”.
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The Sweet Joy & Pain of Going Back Home
No matter how far you travel, no matter how your life may change, there’s something about a return to your roots that makes you feel like a child again. By Ishay Govender-Ypma
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What I Learned When I Gave Up Law to Travel the World
It’s not easy to take the road less travelled, especially when it means trading a high-power corporate job for freelance travel and food journalism. But for Ishay Govender-Ypma, switching careers has brought new joys.
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Ishay Govender-Ypma
Ishay Govender-Ypma is a freelance travel and food journalist, who wisely abandoned a career in commercial law in the pursuit of cultural immersion and air miles.