28 October 2020
Here I am doing the writer thing at a coffee shop in OR Tambo International Airport. As always I am hours early for my flight but […]
28 September 2020
Another crisis, another upheaval I have no idea how to deal with. A friend sent a link this morning and as the powerful words of I […]
14 September 2020
The notification of a charge on my credit card got my attention. It was from a company with whom I had signed up for a free […]
7 September 2020
Writers like to joke about their work. Usually how little they manage to do as they search endlessly for the creative genius that will catapult them […]
28 August 2020
This year Women’s month in South Africa has passed in a haze of Covid-19 lockdowns, fear, tales of unending corruption, and muted concern over domestic violence. […]
21 August 2020
There is a palpable sense of lightness this week in South Africa, after moving to Level 2 of lockdown. In retrospect the Covid journey seems to […]
14 August 2020
Friday, middle of the month, it has been a frenetically busy day here in White River. I can only think it is the thought that maybe, […]
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
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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?