I haven't written in over two months. Not for lack of something to write about, more because of a lack of time and the sense that the r...

Next to me lies a pile of documents I have wanted to post about. Flyers given at the Karneval der Kulturen , where I pressed my body agai...

The past few weeks have been laced with exhaustion. I would ask myself what fresh hell the fates could come up with, how much shit I...

Patience is not a virtue that I have in spades. In contrast to the other six it is the hardest one for me, as it involves sending the goo...

Outside the sun shines as green leaves are tickled by the slightest of breezes. Inside, I wait to head out, feet frozen because wearing sh...

I have forgotten what's good in these uncertain times. When nothing in sure, it is easier to have your attention drawn to weaknesses i...

Freedom Day. Whilst people at home celebrate the first democratic elections of 1994, I did yoga, cleaned the apartment and went to the mar...

Tomorrow marks a month of having left the motherland. Having left the mother, who sends me images of recipes she is going to try out and Fac...

Suddenly what was supposed to be dinner erupts in sound. Loud yelling something about driving him up palms and not provoking him. ...

I like closing my door and being by myself. Call it me-time, call it loneliness, call it isolation, but not having had a room of my own in t...

The last Saturday in Pretoria was action-packed. We woke up, dropped off the rental car I had hired for two days, headed to an instawalk ...

The email from the event company stated that Mumford & Sons were coming to South Africa. I was still doing an internship in Paris...

10 days left in the motherland. Yesterday I arrived back in Stellenbosch, tomorrow we embark on a little road trip past Gansbaai to Cape Ag...

I've been home for a month now, and that is what this place is: home. Driving into Pretoria after a two-day trek up from the Cape, I kne...

They wanted to separate us. They have brought us together. "We don't need to go into work if we're afraid because of the ra...