I have been reading a lot of news lately.This is bad for the constitution, it seems, and for my stomach.This news has recently, mostly included reports and revelations about a company called Bosasa, as told by a member of staff known as Angelo who I suspect decided to break ranks with his former boss (Gavin […]
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Its your fault
Jabu Mabuza says it’s YOUR fault. (Jabu Mabuza is the new chairman of South Africa’s power generating and distribution, State-Owned-Enterprise, ESKOM, and he says that we’re all to blame for the energy crisis the country is now in) Yes, you, aunty doing your makeup in the rearview mirror in your car at the robots on […]
Phoenix
Ssshhh, he shooshed her. This is my favourite part. They were sitting in his lounge – a plush suede olive couch, rock hewn walls, downlighters, and glass for an expansive view over the apple orchards and vineyards, and in the distance, the blue mountains, and further still behind them, the setting sun. A song had […]
The Actor
“Depression is the soul’s way of letting you know it’s time to play another actor.” The Instagram post was a photo of a grey-green misty forest, somewhere where trees grow, with a brown dirt road leading in, and with those words printed on it in a friendly but neutral font. Briefly he felt a flicker […]
What now
How do people do it? He wondered. How do they get it right to live in confined space with the same person and the same stories, and the same life, day after day after day? He’d tried marriage once. It lasted 18 months. It ended with her throwing a hiking boot at him, and him […]