When will IT stop? This enigma. I wake up to IT every morning. I read IT in my news feed while drinking my first cup of coffee. I listen to IT while I drive in the afternoon to fetch my daughter from school. I eat supper to IT while watching…

Is it what we think it is? She walks into the room. Everyone is looking at her. Questioning. She has no clue why but it can’t be anything good. It must be the way she looks. Perhaps her dress looks strange on her. Her hair…either way, she can’t take it…

The trailblazer, kingmaker and infamous mother of the Zulu nation It is the middle of the night. Dark, cold, so cold that the sparsely dressed warriors standing guard inside the circle of reed huts, can see white smoke coming out of their mouth and noises as they march around warily…

The path to growth or expiration? Recently, probably a day or two ago, I happened to be listening to one of my favourite female evangelists. Her name is not necessary but as it happens, her sermon is a great preface to what has to be said. The lady travels a…

Is it love? Maybe vindication? It seems like aeons ago. The day I first met you. I was twenty-three. You were twenty-four. Both of us young, starry eyed and raring to go. It was a beautiful, warm but pretty normal day. No stars, no rainbows and a pot of gold…

The word I vow to delete from my vocabulary. As an adjective, simply referring to behaviour that is morally right and fair and as an adverb, to exactness or timing, this word has somehow ingrained itself into my vocabulary and speech. As it happens, for reasons quite different to those…

A story should have a good, imaginative and unusual start to attract the reader… I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard this line. From every writing book to each teacher who’s tried to school me in the fine art of script writing. As a budding writer, I must…