"Let's take the ladies to the clinic," Juma Number One said as I helped him to raise the hand-made Lateen sail of the dhow. We went out early Monday morning to fish behind the continuous fringing coral reef which dominates the southern 200km of Kenya's coast and expands all the way down to Mozambique.

"Even old New York was once New Amsterdam"

Song: They May Be Giants

If we were to think about the major influences that have played a part in South African life as we know it – the language(s) we speak, religion, architecture, and to which country we might compare ourselves to today – what could we say?

By voorbaat ekskuus dat ek nie aan elkeen 'n afsonderlike email stuur nie, maar ek dink hierdie eerste mail is maar net 'n inleiding tot die fo##op sover.

"Belissima", I thought when I drained the last of the bitter brew from a chipped, white, porcelain cup. After years of imagined ideas of what Venezia might be like, I was here - just before the rains start.