My wise (much) younger sister recently sent me a link to a YouTube video that’s got me thinking. I’m often very late to these things – bear with, Miranda – so you may all have forgotten it already. It’s billed as a ‘spoken word film’ by London-based writer and director, Gary Turk. The five-minute film, […] Read more
On Monday 7 April Ikeys beat Pukke 39-33 in the Varsity Cup in Potchefstroom. By all accounts the match ended in spectacular fashion with Ikeys scoring three tries in the last five minutes. The UCT boys had cause to celebrate; the North West University lads had cause to drown their sorrows. I’m sure that even […] Read more
It started with a tweet, a perfectly timed tweet (or two or three) on Valentine’s Day 2014.Exactly 366 days since he last tweeted (13 February 2013), Oscar Pistorius posted these tweets to his 300 000 followers: A few words from my heart on oscarpistorius.com @oscarpistorius: A few words from my heart on, oscarpistorius.com Then later […] Read more
I am weary, dragged down by the waves of controversy, aggression and conflict that have engulfed my reality over the past two weeks. My Twitter TL, usually a good barometer of the state of my corner of the nation; the daily newspapers I read or glance at in the supermarket queue; our news and radio […] Read more
The Big Issue has launched a Thundafund campaign to finance the costs of publishing its first three issues of 2014. A non-profit organisation, the Big Issue publishes a quality general-interest magazine which is sold through a vendor force of unemployed, homeless and socially-excluded adults. The organisation’s operating budget is already behind for the year, hence […] Read more
I recently wrote an opinion column for the Cape Times (Do we really want to make life less comfortable for those on the street?). It appeared in the print edition but not online, except for the e-dition, which is available to subscribers. (I know because I searched their website and the only references to Gootkin […] Read more
