I recently re-watched Jon Blair's film on war reporters, Dying to tell a Story.
Today I am taking the unusual step of repeating an adapted version of a column I wrote seven years ago, a column used as the foreword to Gabrielle Lubowski's book, ...
Here's a conundrum for the legal fraternity in Botswana to ponder: will Akolang Tombale, that country's Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and ...
Regular readers of this column will know I am something of a Land Rover slut. Not just any Land Rover, not the ubiquitous Range Rovers, Discoveries or Freelanders ...
One of the saddest lines I've read in a while was this one in my colleague, Brian Ingpen's Port Pourri column on Wednesday: "The popular passenger service to St ...
For the past couple of years, I have been having a delightful sporadic e-mail correspondence with retired biochemistry professor, David Whitehead, who has worked ...
This is a very welcome reprint of Whitehead's popular 2010 book, and, unlike many recent travel books, is aimed mostly at the South African and not the foreign tourist ...
We were bobbing and glowing just past the field of psychedelic mushrooms in the middle of the desert when a swarm of eight blue jellyfish advanced on us.
Imagine if I had started off this column by saying that attempts to justify the spending on Jacob Zuma's residence at Nkandla were "lies perpetuated by black people". ...
There can be few places on earth quite as alluring, and as mysterious, as the Okavango Delta.
Does Minister of Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, know something that the rest of us don't? I ask this in the context of remarks he is reported to have made at ...
Oh dear, oh dear. Pastor Wesley Douglas (remember him) and his sidekick, Chelsea Amor Lotz (why stop there, Sahara Chardonnay Savannah Sauvignon Blanc Fourie has ...
There's a rude phrase that is used to describe the feeling of helplessness one gets when taking up the cudgels over and over again against insurmountable odds - ...
The Western Cape provincial government, via its conservation arm, CapeNature, has concessioned off and privatised the tourism rights to some of the province’s prime ...
The Western Cape provincial government, via its conservation arm, CapeNature, has concessioned off and privatised the tourism rights to some of the province's prime ...
It was late in 2001 when I got a call from Cape Times editor, Chris Whitfield. "Do you want a job?" he asked. "I've got a three month contract position open. "
How short a time is 20 years. On April 6, 1994, my wife and I were camped on the shores of Lake Victoria next to the incredible Entebbe Botanical Gardens, the place ...
Harold Wilson, he of "Wilson is a paw paw" fame, once said "a week is a long time in politics". Well, a week is a long time in the world of journalism.
I had never heard of Melissa Bachman until two South African newspapers splashed a picture of her grinning at the camera as she posed with a rather tatty, but very ...
The outrage, the bile, the hatred that comes bubbling to the surface the minute Robert McBride's name swims into the public eye is all too predictable.
Just over five years ago, on May 30, 2008, I opened this column by saying "this is a sentence that I never wanted to write: I am ashamed to be South African and ...
Woe is me, the end is nigh. The end of the world as I know it is upon us
When does a civil war reach a point where the international community has to take military action to save the lives of civilians and stop a growing humanitarian ...
There is a terrible feeling of déjà vu about the announcement by Environment Minister Edna Molewa that South Africa intends lobbying Cites to allow us to sell off ...
Yesterday was a crazy day. SMS and Twitter messages were flying: "Announcement on Madiba expected at 12". "Security forces on full alert. " "Live SABC interviews ...
