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Wasn’t that a wonderful expression of gratitude extended to members of Britain and the Commonwealth’s armed forces on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of VE Day recently. For four days British television programmes paid glorious…
“Quietly he shook his head.” I was paging through an old Zane Grey western, which was lying about the place, when that sentence threw me as if my horse had put his foot in a gopher hole. So I put the book down, reflected for a moment and…
Did you catch the movie, Sully, when it was aired on television recently? Briefly, it was an account of how Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot of a Canadian Airbus A320 brought the aircraft with 155 passengers on board down safely on…
The less I have to do with the telephone these days, the better. I am well retired now so I do not make business calls, for example, unless it’s essential to do so. Whenever I have no option but to use the phone, I am invariably appalled…
Though it has just passed and we are now entering September, there is something about the month of August in this part of the world which seems to upset nature’s equilibrium and makes those of us who live here gird our collective loins.…
One evening in October 2021, a man whose head was swathed in a scarf, hoodie, mask and dark glasses, entered the offices of Gqeberha newspaper, The Herald and dropped a parcel at the reception desk addressed to Mr Wouter Botes. He asked…
Former Dispatch editor Donald Woods would have turned 90 on December 15. Not too many readers I suspect, except those who knew him well and his fight against apartheid would have paid much attention to this snippet in the newspaper’s…
Feeling a touch nostalgic one evening last week, I put on an old CD and listened once again to an iconic voice from the distant past which was once held in great affection by the people of that era and inspired hundreds and thousands of…
“Welcome to your new home,” said Claire Neithercut, the warm-hearted and efficient manager of Berea Gardens, as she opened the front door of our comfortable little apartment here at Berea Gardens. “. . . and may your stay be a long and…
On balmy evenings in the summer when the weather permits, Naomi and I sit out on our tiny balcony with a small libation in hand and experience the warm embrace of the encroaching dusk and, if we’re lucky, witness a full moon rise out of a…
Idly channel-hopping the other evening in the hope of finding something vaguely interesting to watch other than the interminable diet of repeat after repeat shows fed to us by DStv these days, I happened to come across the movie Spud II,…
Idly channel-hopping the other evening in the hope of finding something vaguely interesting to watch other than the interminable diet of repeat after repeat shows fed to us by DStv these days, I happened to come across the movie Spud II,…
At about 3.30pm on November 9, Bruce Gardiner arose from the stool in front of his beloved Shimmel Grand Piano, flicked the tailcoat of his dress suit with the back of his hand, bowed elegantly to his appreciative audience and departed…
One for the women this morning. Given the choice, would you remarry your husband? That was the question asked in a survey done in Italy recently. And 43% of the wives said no. In a way, it’s a loaded question. We are told that one…
One Sunday morning a little while ago, my wife Naomi came out of the kitchen and found me on the couch watching the Proteas batting on the television. I was padded up in my whites with my bat, gloves and helmet beside me. By way of…
