“He is the cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.” That, it seems, is the essence of Presley.
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We have to see the individual faces and feel the suffering of the “others”. Instead of seeing them as a burden or threat, we need to stop and stretch out a hand. If we truly can’t help, we can at least listen.
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We have come through a lot this year – riots, floods, droughts, COVID, darkness, and corruption. We have done that together – and even when it looked like everything would untangle, the treads of our common humanity held us together.
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We can keep the Arch’s legacy alive by committing to do a little better every day, to be a little more tolerant to those who we share this country and world with, to speak out fearlessly in the face of injustice, all while laughing a little at ourselves.
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A comment left by a reader on one of my columns a few weeks back got me wondering why people around the world still subscribe to the belief that there is a "natural" world order, with men at the top and women (and children) below them…
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While I understand the frustration of the Rage Festival CEO, who recently lashed out at the media, he is pointing fingers in the wrong direction.
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We have to find the South African version of the Irish “No jab, No pint” and if that doesn’t work, something more draconian so we can finally get ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Regardless of what motivated F. W. de Klerk to end apartheid, nothing can take away from the fact that the former President responded to a moment in history in a way that required tremendous courage.
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It has been six weeks since Melanie’s diagnosis and surgery. "I have always been conscientious about my health, so how could a growth the size of a cricket ball develop only to be picked up during a routine gynae visit?"
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