Suzanne Brenner (L) and Jani Allan Jani Allan lost her fight against cancer in July 2023 and I planned at the time to write an obituary but it remained incomplete among my website drafts. A chance recent Facebook reminder of a story I wrote a decade ago revived my intention of acknowledging her as a […]
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CAPE TOWN – THE FIRST YEAR
Cape Town is a photographer’s dream – wherever you look, there’s a picture-perfect view. The mountains, the parks and the coastline are quite something to behold. The last story I published on my website before leaving Johannesburg was about my house in Melville and the memories we’d be taking with us to Cape Town. I […]
MEMORIES OF A HOME – MOVING ON
For some people, a house is just a convenience where they sleep at night. Not for us. In 1999, my husband and I were charmed by a house in Melville, a lively suburb in Johannesburg. It has been our home for 22 years. Born in Durban, I headed for London as soon as I finished […]
CHOPSTIX FOR DELICIOUS CHINESE
There’s an exciting new Chinese restaurant and takeaway in Melville’s 27 Boxes, just 50 metres from where I live, but it took a chance Facebook sighting for me to discover the new kid on the block. How times have changed. It used to be that nothing went down in my neighbourhood that I didn’t know […]
GERALD SHORTLISTED FOR LITERATURE PRIZE
Ntando Gerald, known as Gerald, is one of two South African-based authors shortlisted for The James Currey Prize for African Literature. Named to honour the leading publisher of academic books about Africa, the competition was established last year by Onyeka Nwelue, a Nigerian writer, filmmaker and publisher. The annual award is for the best, unpublished work of fiction set in or about Africa […]