So I’ve made the move to Pretoria to start life at Nieu Communities. Instead of clogging this blog with updates, I’ve set up a new one where you can keep track of what I’m doing - if you’d like to! So far so good, by the way. I’ve cooked dinner twice, eaten an awesome cheese […]

My friend Jo is 7 months pregnant; she lives with her husband of 5 years, Andrew, in Ladybrand where they’ve been since January 2006. It is with some embarrassment Heather and I noticed this weekend was the first time we’d been to see them since they’d moved. Andrew is a Methodist pastor and due to […]

Given that today is the start of Lent - a time of reflection - let’s think back to that fateful World Cup cricket semi-final against England. ::eyes mist up slightly::

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“…we have our fair share of detractors who confidently predict that we will fail to host a successful World Cup.
“Many detractors are indeed destructive racists, who don’t believe South Africa has the organisational ability to pull it off,” says Moneyweb’s David Carte. “This confers on the organisation an enormous duty to prove them wrong. Get […]

Today was a day of the impossible and of things that shouldn’t have happened. Before we get into them, let’s set the scene.
World Cup 2000: Alan Donald makes an atrocious call and runs out Lance Klusener who very nearly single-handedly got us through to the final on his batting strength alone. This means that the […]