“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind, at the same time, and still retain the ability to...

My ancestors were a rather motley crew of German peasants, French Huguenots, some rather odd British folk and who knows what else. My paternal...

My mother will be 87 in just over a week. She is old and frail and dangerously unsteady on her pins. She is occasionally rather otherwise. She...

One shouldn’t wait until one’s friends are dead to document admiration for them. With this in mind I thought I would schedule some praise singing...

I am struggling to articulate exactly what it is that is so enormously hope-inducing about this extraordinary victory that we all feel part of....

Dear Siya, Bongi, Rassie, Jacques and the Amabokoboko family I come from the rural areas of the Eastern Cape, near Qonce in the territory of the...

Why do we persist in feeling astonished every time an uncommonly brilliant innovation, solution, creation emerges from an African brain on the...

A note to all the misguided folk who insist they don’t/won’t/can’t run:I had already been running for more than half my life...