About me

I’m a third-generation 50-something South African.  I was raised in the apartheid years and  have found the changes since 1994 fascinating, exciting, exhilarating and sometimes heartbreaking and frightening. For friends and family abroad, both ex-South African and others,  I find myself wanting to document the ordinary, everyday experiences of ordinary, everyday life in this complex, kaleidoscope country.  My responses are, of course, subjective, but I try to record things as dispassionately as possible.  Sometimes the material is so uplifting and encouraging, it’s easy.  At other times it’s not.  But whatever the story, I aim to tell it just like it is – from my perspective.