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In the summer my son Jack turned four, he started to develop strange white patches on the skin of his neck. Over the course of several weeks, the patches spread to his chest and right arm. The paediatrician was a little flummoxed and put in a call to a dermatologist. It was, she said, […]
This week I was waiting on a pavement in the Cape Town CBD, waiting for a lift. A car moseyed up one-way Long Street, slowed, stopped. Reversed ten or twenty metres, made a right turn and proceeded on its way. Luckily there were no cars right behind it, and all was well. I smiled, […]
Cape Town – If conventional wisdom is anything to go by, 2016 is going to be a bad year for me. The year is only two weeks old and already our family has been hit by irritating, unforeseen or worrying events. On a visit to the beach, our venerable travelling backpack was stolen while […]
Being middle class is supposed to be a comfy, complacent sort of thing. But there are silent struggles everywhere you look. I took my cat to the vet yesterday, for her vaccinations. Now this is not unusual – but it is for me. This cat has not in fact been vaccinated since 2005 – […]
When I was little, I had a dream. I would sit on the floor with my mother’s copy of the Royal Hostess recipe book (“South Africa’s own cookbook” it said proudly on the cover) and wish with all my heart that my mother would one day make me the Royal Rondavel cake. Now that […]
This column was first published on IOL, where I worked until November 2016. It is republished here, using the same date. Cape Town – If a young black woman told you she didn’t particularly want white South Africans as friends, what would your reaction be? If you were white, you might be offended. If […]
I spent last week training a small group of interns, teaching them to use my company’s multimedia tools. It’s a long time since I trained a group of people, in a room, with the luxury of time and a training plan. And I realised again how much I enjoy it. Reflecting on the week, […]
I have been a journalist for a long time, enough to have some thoughts about the meaning of what I do. And there are some things I find I feel quite strongly about, after all this time. I entered journalism with an English degree, rather than any academic training in the profession itself. So […]
We too can offer something to you: our experience and knowledge that has come from it. The specific experience I am talking about has given me one certainty: consciousness preceded being and not the other way around, as the Marxists claim. For this reason, the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than […]
As always in fact, the living incarnation of compassion seems never to have lost his hold on humanity. “Sometimes,’ he admits, “I wonder whether my efforts really have any effect; I sometimes feel that unless there is a bigger movement, the bigger issues will not change. But how to start this bigger movement? Originally, […]
