We’ve all gazed into a painting and got lost in it. With Walter Battiss, this can mean diving deep into the strange, strange world that the artist lived in. If you were me, you might even find yourself inventing a Fookian cuisine.
Daily Archives: 2022-07-27
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It was one of those ‘you had to be there’ moments. Four years in the making, the excitement was palpable […]
Professor Jakes Gerwel’s name is indelibly inked in the story of the University of the Western Cape (UWC), a story […]
After an absence of two years due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Jakes Gerwel Foundation and Brussels-based International house of […]
One day I came back home and found her with a man, she was so sad and could barely look me in the eye. She introduced him as her good friend who was to take care of me since she could not anymore. She had already packed my clothes and said I must go with the guy
I was drawn to this lifestyle as if I was born for it. I grew up in a small town, with my grandparents, and would spend my school holidays in Cape Town with my mom. I absolutely loved it. Cape Town City! I remember taking a bus into the city, and then saunter casually up Hanover Street, right to the top, where Muslim family of ours lived.
Semantics is why South Africans get mad when our president offers an apology for the confusion as opposed to his wrongdoing. That’s not splitting hairs; that’s holding the Prime Servant accountable to his oath of office and constitutional mandate.