For those of you who have been following the book launch tour we have now had four different launches: one at Vovo Telo and one at the Warehouse in Cape Town, one out Stellenbosch way and recently another in Durban. What i have discovered along the way is that my favourite part at every single launch was the Q & A time we scheduled in the middle of it. Opportunities for people [...]
My friend Tsholo commented on the Bob letter in the comments section, but her comment was so long and specific that i didn't want it to be missed and so i asked her if it would be alright if i ran it as another post in this series and she said yes: [Meet Tsholo: I am a 31 year old black female - lover of music and all things pink. Born and raised in the Free [...]
This is a second response to my friend 'Bob's anonymous letter, which you can read here. Marlyn Faure is a friend of Alexa who has been wanting me to connect with and meet him, and he felt up to the challenge of responding to Bob as well in his own words and so here they are. [Meet Marlyn - I am 26 year old coloured male from Cape Town. Currently I am doing my Honours [...]
Oh sure, you type LOL, but not while you are ever actually laughing out loud - you wouldn't have the stability... But in the meantime let's take some time out to appreciate five more quotes from my favourite actual LOL guy, Jack Handey: 'Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go the later you think you are.' [Jack Handey] 'One thing that a computer can [...]
"But these words are Magic!" he said, and i think it was the gravelly emphasis that he placed on the "GIC" part of "maGIC" that caught my attention. Otherwise, i may well have escaped that encounter relatively unscathed. As it was, i did not. i was instantaneously curious... "What type of magic?" i asked, as if i was suddenly an expert on all the diverse varieties that existed. As if an hour before i had not [...]
This is a response to yesterday's shared anonymous letter, What About Bob? and so if you have not read that yet, start there and then come back here and continue. Alexa is a good friend of mine who has been involved in many of the conversations we have had on race, reconciliation, restitution and other terms that may not begin with R but this is stuff she is passionate about and doing her best to live [...]
A week or so ago, i received an email from an old friend of mine who is currently living outside of South Africa and who asked to remain anonymous. Let's call him 'Bob'. Bob emailed me some thoughts about the current situation in South Africa and his feeling as a white South African at this time. As i read through Bob's mail i had some strong reactions to some of the stuff he is saying, [...]
So i saw a tweet on the Twitterer inviting me to share an ad for solar powered stuff on my blog which all seemed a little commercial for my tastes. However, having taken a look at the items that Sustainable.co.za is offering to students to help them both counter load-shedding and start taking responsibility for their own carbonite footprints, i thought it was worth doing. i am not making any money by doing this, but [...]
i get it, South Africa is in a bit of a mess right now, and that statement is a bit of an understatement. And yes, xenophobia might not be the correct word, but it's the one most people understand and so it does seem to work for now so please don't let us get distracted by that. With this whole Xenophobia vibe, there are two truths: [1] One truth is violence, fear, destruction, hate [2] Another [...]
This is my friend Rob Davey who lives in Zimbabwe. i have not seen Rob for something like 10 to 15 years i imagine and yet we recently connected and i asked him if he would write a piece for this blog. i have a saying that 'Quality Shows' and with some people you just identify that immediately - Rob is one of these people - reading this piece will give you that impression as [...]