“Don’t underestimate the value of a good deed. It comes back to you in a blessing – not necessarily material, but in ways you can never imagine”Dr. Imtiaz Sooliman Dear Friends A while back, Mr. Siphiwe Mpye, editor of BusinessDay’s…
“If you don’t know who you are, anyone can name you”Michael Meade Dear Friends Last week’s Rugby World Cup win gave South Africa and Africa much joy. Today’s letter includes two more lessons from Rassie Erasmus’s Stories of Life and…
“If you want to achieve something you’ve never achieved before, you have to do something you’ve never done before” – Rassie Erasmus Dear friends This Simons Town week has been somewhat surreal. The bay has been still, so still that…
“…exclusion levies emotional, financial, social, and other costs that affect not just those who are excluded, but those who exclude and work to keep that exclusion in place. The more inclusive a society, the more it is perceived as a…
Dear Friends First off, please take a moment to congratulate Cape Town author, CA Davids, whose intelligent, life-complicating, and therefore enriching and expanding book, How To Be a Revolutionary, this week won one of South Africa’s most prestigious literary awards,…
Good morning friends If you’ve had the kind of week I had, then you’ll appreciate this baffled tiger and this curious baby elephant. In fact, even if you’ve had the best week of your life, these snippets will make you even happier. If…
Good morning all Today, we’ll get straight to it… Or maybe not… I keep looking for a way to share Cape Town Heritage Foundation’s Instagram page with you. This beautiful post sharing the story of the Kramats of the Western…
Dear Friends A few weeks ago, I opened The New Yorker to read about a trash-eating sea monster that had appeared in the Hudson. The monster was the WasteShark, an unmanned craft that gobbles our rubbish from urban waterways. In…
Good morning friend My week started with Nonkululeko Britton-Masekela saying these kind words, and it ended with Nomvuyiso Batyi saying this. In the middle of the week, my birthday celebrations continued with my sister paying for a magnificent dinner at…
Knowledge is a garden. If it isn’t cultivated, you can’t harvest it Proverb via The Africa Centre Good morning my dear friends If you’d like some music for your Sunday, you’ll love the Ndlovu Youth Choir’s tribute to Zanzibar-born Farrokh…
“All around the world, we feel uncertainty and want to connect with what roots us to heritage, to the past, with something that has meaning.” – Manchán Magan Dear Friends This is the 160th edition of Strategy, Soul and Self…
Good morning dear friends I have just returned from the Africa Impact Forum in Kigali, Rwanda. The Forum is a biannual gathering of ALI fellows from across the continent. In the room were people from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania,…