Stories

On Saturday 18 April 2020, we celebrate World Heritage Day under the theme “Shared Culture, Shared Heritage, Shared Responsibility”. The fact that this year, this day comes while we are physically distanced from others serves to underscore the importance of feeling connected through humankind’s shared wealth – our heritage.

I once heard that hardly any of the guys who landed on the moon are married to the same people they were married to before they went there.  I also once heard that prostitution rose after the great depression as desperate women looked for ways to support themselves. I have no personal experience of neither.

The Constitution Hill Covid-19 Digital Archive Project

South Africa’s lockdown has been extended to the end of April. Globally we are experiencing the largest and most restrictive mass quarantine ever. More than 1.5 billion people - one fifth of the world's population, have been asked to stay at home to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Alan Paton, my grandfather, is probably best remembered as the author of Cry The Beloved Country.

As I run  endlessly forwards and backwards  on the cramped space of our deck, with the sea sounding  below, my body  remembers when half a century ago I was running round and round  in a tiny exercise yard during  endless days of solitary confinement, dreaming I was running to the sea…