The days of your life at boarding school are forged together by a number of meaningless rituals. Rising bell, making senior’s cum stained beds, chapel, not walking on the grass, forced rest after lunch, bell duty, prep periods in the evenings, making toast to feed senior boy’s inflated ego’s, being forced to down sour milk …
The new South Africa Originally uploaded by shrink252 I absolutely love this photograph. There is a quaint bakery, nestled under the pine trees, in the Central Drakensberg. The food here is very good. But, when you have young children who need to be constantly entertained, food is secondary to the availability of an enticing playground …
Now that Obama has been officially inaugurated, are we living in a different world? I am not too convinced of this; there are far too many variables, other than the American president, that come together to bring about global change. But, we are certainly living in a world that is desperate for ‘change’ and the …
Last week South Africa celebrated its Day of Reconciliation. The shifting significance of this day tells an interesting story, in itself, about our nation’s transformational history. Originally signifying the victory of the Afrikaners over the Zulus, at the Battle of the Blood River, later becoming the anniversary of the formation of the armed wing of …