Nov 2017 – In My Words

What you really need…

Nov 28, 2017 adminUncategorized

I am here! I survived Black Friday, Black Weekend et al and even Cyber Monday, without so much as the temptation to scan through the online or print space for those big bargains. No, I’m[…]

Starbucks: Keeping up with coffee in Durban

Nov 23, 2017 adminUncategorized

Grown in Africa, glamourised by celebrities donning boots and trench coats, clutching their cups on the streets of London and New York, but now there’s a homecoming of sorts…. yes, coffee culture is brewing in[…]

Zimbabwe: Let us break bread

Nov 22, 2017 adminUncategorized

www.urbandictionary.com https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com Let us, South Africans, break bread with our brothers and sisters in Zimbabwe. The symbolism of bread for this country runs deep, and it’s tangible too. Once hailed as the bread basket of[…]

GREATER GOOD

Nov 18, 2017 adminUncategorized

How does a parent get over the loss of a child? It’s a question that is being asked too often in South Africa nowadays. Young lives are being lost fighting terminal diseases, in horrific road[…]

A must read, especially today. 157 years on…

Nov 16, 2017 adminUncategorized

The answers to this eternal human pursuit of a better life requires reflection tomorrow, 16 November 2017, a day which signifies the arrival of indentured Indians to this country some 157 years ago. The search[…]

December

Nov 9, 2017 adminUncategorized

December is not going to be easy in South Africa. Frankly, it’s been a tumultuous, at many times, catastrophic year. From Gordhan to Nzimande getting the axe to yet another failed motion of no confidence in President[…]

indenture

Nov 1, 2017 adminUncategorized

Growing up, I had an acute awareness and understanding of South African history. I excelled in history at matric level and never saw it as a subject, but rather a way of understanding life,[…]