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Breaking Bread [with Linde]: On Allyship, Friendship and Engagement

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Breaking Bread [with Linde]: On Allyship, Friendship and Engagement

Hi Linde, thank you so much for agreeing to try this with me. It started with you writing a blog post titled 'For Blacks Only' - https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/for-blacks-only-guest-post-by-linde-ndaba/#comments - although you did tell me that it was also a great post for white people to read and i fully agree with that. Then my friend Megan [who i know is totally genuine in her response and is someone really looking to be a genuine ally to people of [...]

By brettfish|2016-02-04T13:08:35+02:00February 4th, 2016|challenging thorts, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|11 Comments

Welcome to Brettfish.co.za

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Welcome to Brettfish.co.za

Greetings and Welcome to Brettfish.co.za - this has been a LONG time coming and huge thanks to my friends, Mandy Papenfus and Simon Streep, for helping me get to this point. The hope of a cleaner, crisper, fresher look for my blog as well as a space to add videos and book sales and other fun things when i get the chance. 2016 feels like it is going to be a significant year, specifically in [...]

By brettfish|2016-02-01T16:58:37+02:00February 1st, 2016|activities, adventures|17 Comments

For Blacks Only: Guest post by Linde Ndaba

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For Blacks Only: Guest post by Linde Ndaba

My name is Linde Ndaba and I’m addicted. My addiction might not have me shacking relentlessly from withdrawal symptoms, as drug dependence often does or leave me broke and destitute, but it may arguably be just as problematic. As a black person raised in a white suburb (Pinelands) in South Africa, my neighbourhood friends rarely made the effort to know my world. In fact I can count the occasions where they correctly pronounced my name [...]

By brettfish|2016-12-07T11:07:24+02:00January 28th, 2016|change the world, pain and Hope, race vibes, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|2 Comments

#NotOnMyWatch

White people of South Africa. The time is now! Yesterday i shared a status by my friend Sindile which is pretty much going viral which is excellent to see as it is such an important prophetic word especially for the white people across South Africa to really get. This is the summation extract from that post: […]

By brettfish|2016-01-05T09:54:45+02:00January 5th, 2016|activities, change the world, local news, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|5 Comments

A Sparrow by any other name…

It has been a heart-breaking day… i’ve known Sindile for close to a year and a half now i think. Known as in i’ve never met him in real life [yet – hopefully remedy that in the next ten days!] but he has guest posted on my blog a number of times and he has this way of blogging within his Facebook status which inspires and challenge and calls to action and pauses and so [...]

By brettfish|2016-01-05T01:21:09+02:00January 5th, 2016|challenging thorts, change the world, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, shtupidt people, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|1 Comment

The Deep Dive South Africa needs.

i crawled into bed sometime after 2 this morning… Exhausted, challenged, frustrated, reflective, inspired, hopeful. It had been a long, packed day. The night before had seen 11 of us sharing a meal and then sitting outside in our tiny courtyard, wrestling with the idea of what it means to Live Simply. […]

By brettfish|2015-12-31T09:31:23+02:00December 31st, 2015|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, inspire-ations, South Africa, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|14 Comments

Can we stop saying it is about race?

That is the refrain i hear quite a lot from many white people when it comes to issues of reconciliation and marches and freedom and South Africa: Can we just please stop saying it’s about race? So i thought let’s give that a try. And the way i want to do that is by telling a few stories. Now try and not get distracted by the kind of message you think i want to [...]

By brettfish|2015-12-18T10:24:55+02:00December 18th, 2015|challenging thorts, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, South Africa, things to wrestle with, tricky things|30 Comments

i used to think _ and now i think _

How would you fill those blanks in? My good friend Sarah Bessey [slash i read her blog and she once tweetered me] has literally just released her latest book, ‘Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith’ which you can buy over here [and probably should!] Today Sarah is hosting a synchroblog where she invited close personal friends [slash anyone who stumbled upon her blog] to write a post based on the above title.So [...]

By brettfish|2015-11-05T10:38:15+02:00November 5th, 2015|inspire-ations, local news, things to wrestle with, what i am reading|16 Comments

Between AHA! and TA DAAH!

The past two weeks have been an incredible time. Yes, some of the conversations on Social Media got a little aggro, but there were also some really incredible interactions, both online and off and it feels like the #FeesMustFall movement and events really got a lot of people thinking. And introduced many new people to some of the conversations we have been having on Privilege and Restitution and Racism and more. There were a number [...]

By brettfish|2015-11-02T10:13:30+02:00November 2nd, 2015|challenging thorts, change the world, inspire-ations, things to wrestle with|0 Comments

How to be an Ally: Step into the Light

Continuing my series looking at how white people can be more effective allies to their friends of colour as we seek reconciliation and restitution and try to see South Africa head more towards where it should be... The title of this post might seem like a bit of a contradiction having just written one called Move to the Back, but it's not. Last night i was lamenting to my wife, tbV, that life as an [...]