John Miller was a news and crime reporter on the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg in the 1980s. Now he writes for the love of it and until the Coronavirus stopped him in his tracks, he had plans to visit South Africa and Southeast Asia, one of his favourite travel destinations. John lives in Wales […]
BLIND DATE AT O.R. TAMBO INTERNATIONAL
A chance late night call from a blind Vosloorus woman to Talk Radio 702 resonated with a man in Wales, who decided to make her life a little better. With the connivance of a 702-call screener, contact was made. Emails went back and forth for the next six months until he and she met at […]
HOW I MET SUZANNE – OR AS I NOW CALL HER, MS BRENNER
Editor’s introductory note: After receiving this story from John, I was in two minds whether to use it – for reasons that will soon become apparent. Originally, I was going to write something about how John and I met but thought better of it and asked him to write a paragraph on the subject. When […]