The opposite of Faith is not doubt, its certainty
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind, at the same time, and...
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Every day is Africa Day for me.
My ancestors were a rather motley crew of German peasants, French Huguenots, some rather odd British folk and who...
Love takes many unorthodox forms
My mother will be 87 in just over a week. She is old and frail and dangerously unsteady on her pins. She is...
Barefoot along the footpaths of my childhood.
One shouldn’t wait until one’s friends are dead to document admiration for them. With this in mind I thought I...
The Karen Book of Rules – Karin Schimke and Karen Jeynes (Published by Tafelberg)
Ok so at first glance I thought this book would be entirely frivolous and at best would make an hilarious gift for...
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart (Published by Picador)
Possibly the fact that a book has won a Booker Prize (or indeed any literary award) should serve as an immediate...
Make it count!
I am struggling to articulate exactly what it is that is so enormously hope-inducing about this extraordinary...
Op die Groen Kant!
Dear Siya, Bongi, Rassie, Jacques and the Amabokoboko family I come from the rural areas of the Eastern Cape, near...
Continental Imposter syndrome vibes
Why do we persist in feeling astonished every time an uncommonly brilliant innovation, solution, creation emerges...