Self-care is slow kung fu
I’ve been a tai chi practitioner for a number of years: this is how a soft martial art – which is often associated with octogenarians – helps keep me sane…
The Zen of Screaming
Meet Robyn Ferguson, a female, Christian black metal growler; this is a story about pain, prophecies, and how not to injure one’s vocal cords…
Ways of being, the other, and productive trespassing in Bertrams
Celine Dion blares from a Nissan boot. A man pokes at the coals of a make-shift braai in an iron drum. A little white boy in a torn Spiderman T-shirt scampers across the road after buying a packet of Nik-Naks from a spaza shop. A police van hurtles past, blue siren screaming. A skinny dog pushes its snout into a pile of rubbish. Paint peels. The Jukskei stinks. Children sing. I’m walking through Bertrams, and watching a play…