In My Words

Diwali Giveaway

October 2, 2020October 2, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

I have never been one to follow anything blindly. I have always loved asking questions as a child, and more so an adolescent. Clearly the journalist in me was born way before I realised that[…]

Do you believe in intuition? intuition /ɪntjʊˈɪʃ(ə)n/ noun the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning. Sounds very much like a gut feeling, hunch, inner voice or sixth sense, doesn’t it? Or[…]

Being three

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

In the fields, we would laugh and play, Enjoying the warmth of the winter’s day. We’d lay on our backs In delight, What a wonderful sight! Clouds as soft as cotton candy Some pink, others[…]

It’s okay to be not okay…

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

Mums, dads, grandparents and guardians… are you okay? I mean really, are you okay? Between the online schooling, home cleaning, cooking, those heaps of laundry AND working from home, are you okay? Maybe… it’s a[…]

Levels

May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

Levels. What levels? For whom? It’s 11pm as I type this and there’s drag racing in my neighbourhood in Durban. I hear engines revving and tyres screeching. Curfew? They don’t care. In fact, I have[…]

Pregnancy. No Copy and “Paste”

May 29, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

My biggest fear about being pregnant the second time was that it would not be as easy as the first time. I was correct. Boy oh boy! Perhaps the most apt phrase for a mother[…]

Nama-stay

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

“Hugging, shaking hands and kissing are things of the past.” And with those words; President Cyril Ramaphosa opened up the proverbial can of worms. It was the nudge I needed to write this post. These[…]

Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika

May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

Day 41, going on 42. I’m cracking; like that delicate crack that emerges at the top of the cake while baking in the oven. As poetic as it sounds, it’s painful. I don’t have the[…]

Smelling the coffee…

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

I cannot sleep, even though I need to sleep. And no, it’s not the coffee. I guess now is a good time to confess. I haven’t been able to drink coffee for three weeks now[…]

A tale of our times

April 26, 2020April 26, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

A poem by Maya Jagjivan Kalicharan, with references by Charles Dickens It was the worst of times, It was the best of times, This is not just a tale of two cities… It’s a tale[…]