Reflecting on her father’s passing one year ago today, Melanie writes that only those who have lost people they loved understand how your world changes irrevocably the day you hear the news.
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Jo-Ellen’s post is the kind of story any animal lover never wants to read. It seems to me that there are a number of lessons to be learnt from her tragedy.
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Monday, May 18th marked Day One of South Africa’s nationwide vaccine roll-out programme. Finally, Melanie writes, there is hope and a light at the end of the tunnel.
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As I drove towards my sister’s house, I said goodbye to my house. I could see in the distance the plumes of smoke and flames, and had little hope of a good outcome.
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This week, there were some things that made me smile. It was a week with some much-needed good news, laughter, and maybe even justice.
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Unless people change their selfish and reckless behavior, we will have wave after wave, with more people getting sick, more job losses, more alcohol bans, and more people dying.
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Melanie Verwoerd writes that there is more to her grief following the death of Jackson Mthembu this week.
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Unfortunately, the vast majority of people around the globe have cared (and complained) more about the inconvenience of the regulations than the lives of others.
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In countries where people have been given free choice on how they behave in the pandemic, such as wearing masks, many have chosen not to, leading to a lockdown. Melanie Verwoerd writes that South Africans need to be careful, otherwise we could go back to a hard lockdown.
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