A hustle here and a hustle there — how things work (maybe) in Cuba
Plaza Revolución, Havana
I have been travelling through Cuba over the past three weeks — a country venerated for its socialist commitments by both faux and sincere ‘revolutionaries’. But I still do not understand much about the country. The facts do not fit the theory, because the ideological framework that most South Africans — from the left and the right — rely on to make political and economic sense of the world doesn’t seem to work here. (more…)
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1 November 2023
Rugby, Rassie, the Springboks, my father and me – a South African parable
I have always had a complicated relationship with rugby and the Springboks, a relationship almost as complicated as (and inextricably […]
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25 October 2023
Julius Malema has opened himself to criminal charges of ‘scandalising the court’
Malema’s claims outside the East London Magistrates’ Court were intended to delegitimise the trial and its outcome, and to intimidate […]
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5 October 2023
Zuma’s bid to set aside Raymond Zondo’s appointment as Chief Justice is a legal nonsense
What kind of lawyer would be brazen enough to advance such mendacious legal arguments on behalf of their equally mendacious […]
Quote of the week
It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.
The journey is part of the experience — an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.