6 August 2020
I’m a writer. It’s my career, my calling, an unavoidable compulsion, call it what you will, it is what I am and what I do. It […]
14 June 2020
I was born in Mbabane, in the Kingdom of Eswatini many years ago and lived there for most of my life until a couple of years […]
25 May 2020
The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has put our future into our hands: “… as individuals, as families, as communities it is you who will […]
11 May 2020
One of the most interesting aspects of any catastrophe is the number of experts the situation produces. Those who don’t quite have the cheek to pronounce […]
4 May 2020
This is the story of two families, one father, two mothers. Or one husband and two wives. The man is my father. I am from the […]
2 May 2020
I don’t believe there is a born again Christian on the face of this earth who does not desire to know Jesus, God the Father more […]
23 April 2020
In so many ways the last four weeks have dragged, yet the time has flown by. I have achieved a small number of ticks against my […]
3 April 2020
I have no doubt the majority of people reading this, certainly in South Africa, have had a letter from ‘my friend Victor’ whose niece is a […]
30 March 2020
It is interesting how sound is magnified by silence. I live close to a main road and am used to the almost non-stop hum and rumble […]
31 December 2019
Towards the end of November a question was posed: As you near the end of this year, what are the highlights for you of the second […]
19 December 2019
10 December 2019
23 October 2019
29 July 2019
18 May 2019
Are these criteria for white privilege? Or is it only about money, how much one has, regardless of how one came about it?
Is it that simple? Is the divide that neat?
13 March 2019
the depth of misery in the eyes of the young boy living on the street, the imperceptible shake of his head as I ask what I can do to help say more than words.
1 February 2019
21 December 2018
Close to 40 years after giving my life to Christ I obviously have many Christian friends, and right now a number of them, including me, are […]
5 September 2018
Today I bring forth an argument: To Shame or Not to Shame. I saw a post which decried sharing acts of abuse in open fora as […]
12 June 2018
I love reading. I love books. I love the escapism of tales of love, and mystery, and suspense, and history, my taste is eclectic. I learnt […]
4 June 2018
The bitter truth, however, is that the majority of pregnancies are terminated not because of deformity, or as a result of rape. They are the result of flagrant and irresponsible sexuality, people copulating without precaution, knowing they will not be brought to account for their actions
12 March 2018
How do you feel today? What emotion predominates and if you were to allow it free rein where might it lead you? One of my […]