“Documents” demanded the traffic cop. I’d turned off the M1 at junction twelve straight into a fabled Johannesburg roadblock. Kitted out in high visibility 21st century uniform his chest was supplemented Read more [...]

Stopping smoking has not as much changed me as helped me become myself. Nomalanga a DJ for VOWfm who goes under the name Miss Sunshine says my face is more open. Her words should be a declaration at an Read more [...]

9am to 12.30pm I meet Lebogang Mashile in Parkhurst and we talk and talk and talk becasue we are brother and sister. And in early afternoon I meet Abebe Zegeye a wonderful man and Jyoti Mistry the academic Read more [...]

At about 2pm I drive to Melville, to wish café, for an interview with Beeld the Afrikaans language newspaper with theatre critic Kobus Burger. Is this your local” he says . “Not really” I reply Read more [...]

I devote a most of the morning to selecting three tracks which best depict my experience of family. I do this for Miranda Sawyer of The Guardian Newspaper for an interview on December 1st when back in Read more [...]

(continued from part one) Fela Kuti was like a brother to Carlos Moore who wrote the authorised biography in first person as part of a deep and loving friendship. And it is this story that has been Read more [...]

ON NOVEMBER 9TH Amelia Hill of Guardian reports “An award-winning American musical based on his life – lavishly praised by a string of American celebrities, including Madonna, Spike Lee, Toni Morrison, Read more [...]

I awoke at three am as today. The Butterflies settled in my stomach and I realised it was ridiculous to be awake at this time so forced myself back to sleep and woke again at seven. Staring into the Read more [...]

I wake at 5am in a cats cradle of birdsong, wrapped in its web and suspended from a giant dark tree in a forest of night. Light spears the canopy and from nowhere shoals of golden fish swim around me. Read more [...]

“See when I grew up there was no Apartheid” He squinted as if examining his own words. “there was no apartheid”. This I had to hear: a fifty year old liberal looking white guy who runs a Read more [...]