Creative Non-Fiction
It’s Marvelous what Milo Can Do For You
Warm and delicious Entering the world of Milo - a beloved malted drink that’s an essential backdrop to so many childhoods around the world. For My Recipes, September 2018 Children in Malaysia and [...]
Eight Seats Too Many, Eight Seats Too Few
The Table Ishay Govender (@ishaygovender) Until The Day– Thanksgiving Series, for Popula, November 2018 We felt like conspiratorial knights by ordering a round dining room table, its handsome surface echoing the inlaid grain [...]
Piedmont – A Food Lover’s Italian Odyssey
Piedmont – A Food Lover’s Italian Odyssey From Turin to Bra, Alba and the neighbouring wine valleys, Ishay Govender enjoys a taste of Slow Food’s home and the birthplace of so many iconic [...]
WHITE MAGIC: PORT & TONIC
Delicious and refreshing Port and Tonic – on late blooming and even later discoveries. For true magic, exit left at the Douro Valley. For Popula, Oct 2018 I had my first port tonic [...]
Eaten – Blue Cheese Blues
Featured in Panorama Sunday Magazine - 9 October 2016 Welcome to our new weekly Sunday Magazine. Each Sunday, we’ll bring you selected works from around the world, from travel poetry to fiction to photography. This [...]
A Lesson in Kissing the Wrong Boys
A lesson in kissing the wrong boys first, for Marie Claire Real Lives The Party of a Lifetime column, December 2016. “OF course I’ve done that. I was married, remember?” Thami* said, slow American-textured drawl [...]
Trust in Travel
Trust in Travel – What You Fear May be What They Fear While travelling the backroads, cities and towns of South Africa on an extended project, Ishay Govender soon learns that the trust in travel [...]
Bloemfontein Blues
Bloemfontein Blues - A trip down memory lane Retracing my university days in the university town. For Mail & Guardian, July 2016. A decade can fall between the cracks, as effortless as an autumn leaf [...]
Going Home for the Holidays
The Sweet Joy & Pain of Going Home for the Holidays Going back home for the holidays may bring you back to your childhood days. Reflections on the things that don’t change, and the things that [...]
How Durban, My Hometown, Made Me Who I Am
A Love Letter to Durban, city of my birth - South Africa Durban, my hometown - the love I have for the city that made me who I am today. Durban ("Durbs") will forever live [...]
Why we Climb
Why we Climb. On Hiking Mount Giewont, in Zakopane, Poland, spied through trees. Posted on Instagram Why we Climb For some, it is solitude they seek on the mountain trek.Peace is carved on the twisting [...]
Going Back There – Reflections on Home
Going Back There - Reflections on Home for Visi Magazine celebrating my husband's birthday with my parents in their home Ishay Govender reflects on her childhood home, the changes that make visiting difficult [...]