6 November 2025
I have just spent a wonderful ten days in Botswana with my firstborn son. For five of those days, we disappeared into the ‘bush’ as we […]
7 October 2025
This is going to be a long read, so I suggest you grab a cup of tea, and settle down comfortably. Some time ago I had […]
25 September 2025
God’s question to me today, after watching a snippet from *Bob Goff, is “will I trust Him on the rock face?” A part of me wants […]
11 September 2025
I have been increasingly filled with a subliminal sense of unease over the past months, concerned at the rhetoric coming out of the United States of […]
2 August 2025
I can’t see it, I can’t hear it, but it’s there, ominously grunting with each thrust against the innocence of the child who can’t fight back, […]
1 August 2025
“Education was viewed as a part of the overall apartheid system including ‘homelands’, urban restrictions, pass laws and job reservation. This role was one of labourer, […]
24 July 2025
The video looped on and on. I couldn’t stop watching. I couldn’t react. A shattered street littered with bricks and debris, no discernible buildings, no adults, […]
13 June 2025
Legogote Mountain was etched against the indeterminate blue of pre-dawn, gentle horizontal clouds lit with delicate pink and pale grey gave substance to the morning. I […]
29 May 2025
When I was growing up, I lived in a brick house, had my own bedroom, we had running water both hot and cold, and a flush […]
9 May 2025
I wonder how long it will be before the world, and Americans, understand that Donald Trump means every word he says. Behind the bluster and buffoonery, […]
5 April 2025
Back in November last year, after the American’s voted for Trump, I joined a group of international women writers to express how we felt about the […]
2 April 2025
‘Evening, Glenda, in one short sentence, how would you comment on Sipho’s War?’ ‘I have mixed reactions to the title!’ I looked at this message for […]
3 March 2025
February was a crazy month and one that blew my socks off! Two highly successful launches were held for Sipho’s War, one in White River, one […]
15 February 2025
I am someone who can be dogmatic in my beliefs and I am constantly seeking the Lord for help in tempering my discourse, so this probably […]
11 February 2025
We say in Africa that it takes a village to raise a child – I will add to this and say it takes a community to […]
18 January 2025
What a learning curve the past few months have been! It is weird that one spends so many years, so many hours trying to get published, […]
31 December 2024
I find it hard to realise a quarter of a century has passed since the millennium buzz that had most of the world believing the planet […]
16 November 2024
Wherever possible, Saturdays are quiet, the day I take things easy, spend true quiet time with my Lord, bible in hand, and just be as I […]
2 November 2024
This imagery when presented to me resonated deep within my soul. This could be the title of a book, or maybe a poem. It came to […]
31 October 2024
The small carcass of a bushbuck lay defencelessly in an open glade. Some twenty metres away, blended into dry bush, a leopard groomed her cub. A […]
19 October 2024
Nowhere in the Bible does it advocate for a Christian government. Nowhere. Starting with John 18 verse 36: Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this […]
19 August 2024
The videos began early Tuesday morning on the SANParks Facebook pages: two lionesses with an impala they’d killed on the green that adjoins the restaurant at […]