Looking resplendent in their gowns, they walked on the red carpet down the aisle as new graduates and spotted me eagerly waiting to congratulate them. Each of my students hugged me and thanked me. What[…]
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Tag: Students
Graduation and gratitude
Have you ever been in one place but felt like your heart was somewhere else? It doesn’t happen to me often. But it did a few weeks ago, and I was gutted. It was the[…]
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My dear students…
Hello friends! It’s been a while since my last post. Let’s blame it on the almost year-end busy-ness and somewhat of a writer’s block that I’ve been experiencing. That changed yesterday. Amid all the chaos,[…]
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Life Update
There will always be winds of change blowing. It’s how we respond to them, or not, that matters. I embraced the changes that were sweeping through my life after hanging up my headphones at the[…]
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Spreading happiness in schools
It’s been a week of violent videos going viral in South Africa. First, it was the video of a mother physically and verbally abusing her four year old child in Phoenix, Durban. I have not[…]
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Published!
Yesterday, my open letter to the matric class of 2017 was published in the Pietermaritzburg-based The Witness newspaper in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. I’m a former SABC radio journalist and spent over 15 years on air.[…]
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Changing hate, changing fate
Race. We are a nation obsessed with race. We pull the race card too quickly. Instead of celebrating matriculants who excelled, many have chosen to make it about race. I have seen a flood of[…]
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My giant leap of faith in 2017
Procrastination. It’s never been my thing. As a journalist, I have always been driven by deadlines. Get the story now, or someone else will get it. That was ingrained in my mind. No second thoughts.[…]
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