Edito: In his latest e-mail Ben Cousins referred me to reactions to his article in the Mail and Guardian, which you will find at : Mail and Guardian site

Edito: Well dear friends and readers, today's posting marks the end of this blog. Originally created to accompany the build-up to the Rio Loco Festival, I had hoped it would become an informal forum/meeting place for South Africans all over the world, who share, I have no doubt, my mixed feelings of relief and acute nostalgia for South Africa. Howe

Edito : have been ill with flu for awhile and not in the mood for blogging but do have the next posting in mind, a short account of books I've read since the Word Marathon in Toulouse. Many of these were by South African authors but not all. Watch this page!

Edito : I got a tweet message that led me to Graeme William's site, see link below, _ Graeme Williams' site

Edito:The following report was distributed by the Festival organisers yesterday in French (see link below the article). This is the English translation done by Mike Dickman: Mercredi 30 juin 2010 Rio Loco: Report on the South Africa edition, 17–21 June Ignoring the gloomy skies, nigh on 100 000 music–loving festival–goers have once again appl

Edito : I spent five days in hospital in June for an operation. Once out of the anaesthesia I alternated reading and watching the elimination matches for the World soccer cup in South Africa. I stayed off work until the end of June and spent most of that time flat on my back, either reading or sleeping. Since then I've gone back to work, but only p

Edito: France is experiencing a strong right-wing drift at the moment with mass explusion of the Rom people from their miserable campgrounds around France. Most commentators believe it is a way of heading off the far right for the next presidential elections and also making breaking news in order to determine what French people will talk about (and

Edito : First a little biography. Eleven years old, when in the boy scouts, I had gone camping at Bluegill Waters, a farm belonging to the Canin family, on the Springs road if I remember correctly. Our patrol camped in an old army tent that smelt of hot canvas and we paddled on the farm lake in a leaky rowboat. When I first left home, as chance wou

Edito: Many people, including Benjamin Pogrund, a former staunch opponent of apartheid and its concommitant oppression in South Africa, have fiercely contested that Israel practices apartheid on the grounds that the South African version was a deliberately racial state policy and, to paraphrase their point of view ' basically much more evil whereas

Edito: I went to have a look a the ARTE LIVE link and discovered, what a joy, that it enables continous streaming, in particular of the concert by Freshly Ground, so get yourself a fresh cup of coffee and sit back and enjoy!!!