[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 27.02.2016] “We have a lead, they also stole our tampons.” There is a calm, controlled authority about Chelsee’s voice that reignites a tiny flicker of hope in me, where none ought to exist. Without a moment’s hesitation, she disappears into the undergrowth and I follow her lead. Lotte, meanwhile, is holding our beach …
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 16.02.2016] For all my lifelong reluctance to believe in the existence of fate, destiny, kismet and the like, it is sometimes difficult to resist the notion that there are greater forces at work than we imagine. As I arrived at Bloemfontein bus station after the horrors of Lesotho, to be greeted by the …
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 30.01.2016] I look over to my phone for perhaps the fiftieth time in the last few minutes, but the flashing LED that signals a message notification remains absent. From receiving corporate emails from all longitudes and latitudes, almost twenty-four hours a day for the past fourteen years, I am now a telecommunications pariah …
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 23.06.2010] It is 00:30am and I am proudly congratulating myself for my superbly mature but completely out of character decision to have an early night: at the wise old age of 35, two nights out in a row present the same challenge as the construction of seven medium-sized pyramids in one working week …