Hey, hey people. It really has been a very long time. It turns out that dark nights of the soul don’t just happen once in a lifetime – I used to think that they did. You know, that moment when you realise that your parents are just people like you (apparently this devastates modern children), your first […]

On the mid 90’s I was doing voluntary work with sex workers in Hillbrow and we spent a lot of time visiting people in a hijacked building named the Mimosa Hotel. A drug cartel simply handed the owner a suitcase of cash and showed him the door.  A few weeks later the maintenance man found […]

Found these very interesting to look at – didn’t have time to write it up so I’m C&P-ing from WikiPedia for now: The cave is situated above the previous course of the Ardèche River before the Pont d’Arc opened up. The gorges of the Ardèche region are the site of numerous caves, many of them […]

So, I took a day and a night and allowed Prince Mashele’s very controversial column to percolate in the back of my head.  As is the way with me, while crossing the road in front of Claremont Station, I had a breakthrough.  See, my problem was: I couldn’t understand why a sensible and brave columnist […]

You’re scared?  So am I.  You’re angry?  I understand.  You’re frustrated?  I can see why. But we need each other.  Maybe no-one is telling us that, people have their own reasons for trying to keep us apart.  But we need each other – every single one of us, great and small, is a part of the […]

Been far too focused on the real world lately – felt it snapping at my attention. Suddenly feeling lonely – not alone, just lonely. Think it’s time I did some imagining, took some time to manufacture the kind of world I want right now, and then visit it in my mind. So, I’m going to […]

A palindrome reads the same backward and forward.  This is a palindrome – playing the opposite backwards.  Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite too. It is worth reading – forward and backward.                                                      Lost Generation by Jonathan Reed   I am part of a lost generationand I refuse to believe […]

I like being a peacemaker, I like it when the hostages go free and the hostage-taker doesn’t get shot in the face. More importantly though, it’s made me realise that I’m not relevant anymore – in fact, I’m not sure that I ever was. I’ve lived too small, my heroes are archaic and my internal […]

Walking over the rail-crossing at False Bay station, there’s a cheerful boy in front of me carrying a guitar.  When I reach Main Road, I share the pedestrian walkway with a girl carrying a violin. And all I can think is: “How lovely is this – kids learning to read melody, and to write it […]

November 2010 – from Health24 Why the bleak title? Well, take the revolting case of the gang-raped schoolgirl (November 2010) – fed a date-rape drug on school property during the school day, and raped by several fellow students who filmed it on their cellphones. Then they disseminated the clip to others, and it’s alleged that […]