Natasha Joseph 🧛🏻♀️
@tashjoeza
A latke that cannot stop screaming // Editor // 🇿🇦 // (she, they, helluva gay). Profile pic: NJ, smirking, sipping a cocktail
Look at this beautiful caracal! Seen and photographed in Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, by Hinesh Patel.
Now inviting very short story submissions about how a lone onion ended up bobbing along in the polluted waters of our local vlei.
We should take a moment to acknowledge Geena Davis in Cutthroat Island.
Okay hear me out: this dog in his fancy new onesie, with his skinny little legs and small feet, reminds me of Prince in one of his incredible stage outfits...
Dalebrook (St James/Kalk Bay) at sunrise, 3/7/2026, by Emile Grundlingh.
15 extraterrestrial weasels in a dog suit wearing pjs and enjoying a scritch.
This Le Guin quote is top of mind today as a relatively small (I think - hope?) and loudly violent group of South Africans smear blood and shit and shame all over our flag, terrorising other Africans in the name of hate.
Here's my dad on Fleet Street, London in the early 1980s. He has taught me many things, most notably: *the rules of cricket (one-days and Tests); *how to identify story angles, write ledes and be a news editor; *the importance of a good glass of red wine now and then.
Very pleased to rediscover this photo of me with one of my favourite Daily Sun lead headlines of all time. (Nobody does headlines like the tabloids.)
South African media watchers may enjoy the phrase used to describe Dr Iqbal Survé in the newspapers he owns. It appears twice in this article in my local knock-and-drop:
Mum, that cryptid is in my house again, please come save me. 😭
15 extraterrestrial weasels in a dog suit (and also in a jacket) basking in the sun.
A rematch against Mexico on the World Cup stage 16 years to the day since this tournament opening goal briefly gave South Africans some hope! It was short-lived! Good luck, Bafana; at the very least try not to embarrass us, huh?
World Cup starts tonight. This classic old comic by The Oatmeal is once again applicable.