People who live on the streets showed us a thing or two about gratitude and grace when the rain clouds cleared for a day recently
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Scribbling in the sand, like 140,000 years ago
The urge to draw circles or write love-notes in the sand is irresistible; it is also ancient
Give a man a fish/teach him to fish …
A day spent taking care of people who live on the street is a gift for all of us on Mandela Day
How Swahili became Africa’s most spoken language
Swahili, which was moulded by immigrants from inland Africa, traders from Asia, Arab and European occupiers, European and Indian settlers, colonial rulers, and individuals from various postcolonial nations, has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognised language
Buy the best veggies, support a fabulous cause
Buying produce from a garden tended by some of Cape Town’s most vulnerable residents gives us a lot more than the freshest, most delicious, ‘cheap as chips’ , hyper-local, plastic-free veggies
Promoting dignity on the streets in Mandela’s name
Providing a hot meal, something to wear and a little dignity to Cape Town’s most vulnerable, a fitting way to mark the great Madiba’s birthday
Pastoralists, a ‘lifeline to the future’?
Pastoralists, often seen as inflexible, outdated relics from the past, are being recast as highly skilled and adaptive and potentially the sources of great lessons in responding to uncertainty and even disaster planning
Listen with your soul …
Locals get a preview of the sacred music that will be played at a historic event in Georgia that will unite a mosque, a church and a synagogue
Renting our own little piece of the sun
Too good to be true? Maybe not. We have no complaints about our rental solar equipment … so far
Visigoths should come with a warning
Totally unprepared to bear witness to the horror, we fled the theatre