Open Stellenbosch

I am Stellenbosch [and other stories we tell our kids before they go to bed]

So this past week a picture appeared on my Twitterer of a white girl with a statement written on a board that made me cringe: Suddenly more and more of these pictures were popping up all over Social Media and turns out there was an #IAmStellenbosch group inviting students at the University to write statements about themselves which challenge the stereotype of a typical Stellenbosch student and highlight the differences and individualities of each student. [...]

By brettfish|2015-09-27T08:58:24+02:00September 27th, 2015|challenging thorts, pain and Hope, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|7 Comments

What ABOUT Bob? Dre brings the CAPS.

My friend Dre [actually Andrea Thorpe] has been commenting at various places in the 'What about Bob?' conversation and so i asked her if she'd be up to sharing some thoughts of her own... [I’m a white, English-speaking South African. I was born in the Eastern Cape in the ‘80s. I studied Journalism and Media Studies and English at Rhodes University, and later completed my Masters in English at Stellenbosch. I’m now roughly halfway through [...]

By brettfish|2015-04-28T13:18:21+02:00April 28th, 2015|challenging thorts, change the world, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|13 Comments