Sooo it's swimsuit season, the mention of which makes most of girls want to hide under our blankets until and wait for the end!!  BUT I have recently found a very interesting and purely genius wa

The African sun, once again, furiously beats down on this beautiful city of mine...the mercury reaching dangerously close to the 40 mark.  The green trees lapping up the sun, the lesser plants wi

"Red soil...the Native's say it's because of all the blood spilt over the land.  It's in your blood, you'll never leave Africa."     Legend tells of the birth of the world, sprouting

  AIDS, we've all heard about it, but what do we really know?  In school we're forced to study the symptoms, the virus, the way it's spread, the facts and myths...we know everything theoret

This blog is about South African Politics, I'm trying to make sense of it all, and writing is the only way I know how...   I'm probably one of the biggest Afro-optimists you'll meet, and I prid

Today is Spring Day here in sunny South Africa and we're THRILLED!!  The first of September is always a happy day for us, but this was the happiest yet!  Normally Spring day is misty and col

My wise brother once told me a joke, which he thought was pretty hilarious...yeah.  He said, how can you tell who man's best friend truly is?  Well, he continued, lock your wife and your dog

Close your eyes for a moment, wait, read this first, then close your eyes...I want you to think of your favourite moment with nature, or however many you have.  Just relive those moments that are

Someone somewhere once said you haven't lived until you've seen an African sunset.  Truer words are hard to come by. Two glorious weeks in the African bush has left me completely and utterly par

South Africa is a truly amazing place...and I won\'t EVER be convinced otherwise. Well, since we won the bid for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, things have been changing over here.  It\'s like the w