Farce or Fiction

I come from a traditional background where oft to be a right and virtuous woman one must be married. In fact the expressions “she is getting married” and “she is starting her life” are synonymous and used interchangeably by my people. To be married one must be unintelligent so as not to affront the male […]

Tender rigging is front and centre in the South African news often enough to put the fear of the omnipotent in anyone. The people involved appear distant, unreachable, untouchable – a bit like Hollywood – and a little too good to be true. So, when a renowned tenderpreneur crossed my path I became unyielding, clinging […]

When you are a lesser known destination and you’re trying to drum up interest and better still investment, you need to lay it on. It’s a bit like selling a house. You have to help people see the potential. It fell to me to show potential investors how one could turn a dusty dune blow-out […]

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry (Shakespeare’s Hamlet). I live in a tiny house in the middle of a small compound in the middle of nowhere. So tiny that some would say I need to go outside to change […]

Knock knock knock. Crrrrrrreak (sound of door opening). Argh (sound inside head). The minister was as naked as the day he was born. I swanned past him, picked up the newspaper and sat down in the armchair. I strategically raised the paper to just above eyebrow-level to avoid seeing his tender bits. The newspaper was […]