The Heroine’s Journey – The One About South Korea
Ahn Yeong Ha Se Yo from Busan, South Korea! It’s the last day of Chuseok, the long Korean thanksgiving weekend. Kyk nou daa! At the same time as Heritage Day […]
The Heroine’s Journey – The One About Earth, Wind & Fire
So, I got safely onto the plane. Straight onto the entertainment centre to find a playlist that I can settle into for the rest of the flight, and I landed […]
The Heroine’s Journey – The One About Packing for South Korea
I’m in the middle of packing for South Korea. Counting down the days until I hop on a plane and return to a place I once called home 10 years […]
The Heroine’s Journey – The One About Succession
“Wildflower” by Skylark is playing on Lunga Singama’s program on HEART FM: She’s faced the hardest times, you could imagineAnd many times her eyes fought back the tears It’s Mother’s […]
The Heroine’s Journey – The One About Boeka innie Bo-Kaap 2026
“Go laugh in the places you have cried” is always the thing that brings me to Boeka innie Bo-Kaap. Muslims in Cape Town break their fast in Ramadaan at this […]
The Heroine’s Journey – The One About Elizabeth Schutter PART THREE
“It is well with my soul,” sang Marlene Le Roux at the Artscape Women’s Day program in tribute to the late Elizabeth Schutter, a beloved friend and community arts and […]
The Heroine’s Journey – The One About Moulood in Bonteheuwel PART TWO
Isn’t it mashallah that the dates for Heritage Month in South Africa and Moulood coincide with one another this year, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) […]
The Heroine’s Journey – The One About Mamma PART ONE
It’s 6 months now since Mamma’s janaaza, her funeral. “Do you miss her?” people ask. When you bury your mother, you don’t just miss her. There’s a part of me […]
Netwerk24: ‘‘Só lee djy ’n dramaturg die beste ken’’ deur Tasneem Daniels
Tasneem Daniels, deelnemer aan die NATi Jong Sterre-program in 2019, skryf ’n huldeblyk aan dramaturg Athol Fugard. Dit het op 15 Maart op Netwerk24 se webtuiste verskyn. In haar huldeblyk […]
Netwerk24: “Die 5 mascots wat die Kaap die beste stad maak”
Vandat Kaapstad deur die gesaghebbende tydskrif TimeOut as “die beste stad ter wêreld” aangewys is, het Tasneem Daniels, deelnemer aan die NATi Jong Sterre-program in 2019, begin wonder watter vyf […]
Reconciliation Day reflections 2024/2025
“It’s a day when we don’t have to go to school,” said Lennox, a boy in my grade 8 class at Livingstone High School back in 2005. It’s Arts and […]
Magic, comedy and trickster life
Recently I reviewed the Entertaining Children contest for LitNet. It is a magic show hosted by the College of Magic in Cape Town for senior magicians to entertain a young […]
Ek verlang
’n Homesick poem geskryf deur Tasneem Daniels te’wyl sy innie buiteland gewoon’t Ek verlang narrie Kaap. Narrie soetgeid en souteragheid van homemade mango achaar, boeber met vermicelli, karamonk en sneeuwit melk […]
LitNet: Ses redes om Dude! Wa’s my bakkie? te kyk
Ôs ammal kan relate aan daai ou film vannie early 2000’s, though Jeremeo Le Cordeur se Dude! Wa’s my bakkie? gie niewe meaning aan daai movie – Ashton Kutcher se gesig issie […]
Sometimes
Diary of a playwright Sometimes writing for yourself isn’t enough. Sometimes writing for the page isn’t enough. Sometimes in the middle of the night when the world has gone […]
THE ONLY CHILD SYNDROME …
Every night I say the Kalimah. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah. And that Muhammad is his messenger. I know why I must say it. At […]
Paulet Huis Throwbacks and the Magic of Creative Safe Spaces
In retrospect I can only lovingly think back to the Paulet Huis like a grandmother happily welcoming us into her midst