Our creative work should not be judged only by its monetary value. And we should honour that more within ourselves. Read the full article on Substack It was shortly after September 11, 2001. I was part of a news crew filming the unfolding war in northern Afghanistan. Four of us and an Afghan driver were […]
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With the fragile ceasefire in Iran taking place this week, I thought of the aftermath of another war I witnessed in Cambodia – almost forgotten now but the pain echoes still Read the full article on Substack There is something eerie about the beauty of an old bomb crater at 20 000 feet. I tell
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A trip to the Tsodilo Hills in Botswana was a poignant reminder of how much we have lost in our sundered connection to nature. Read the full article on Substack The orange glow of the kerosene lamp flickered out over the still waters of the Okavango delta. An owl roosted in the darkness on a
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Read the full article on Substack These days I find myself turning more and more to nature and memories of my times in the African wilderness to feed my anxious soul. This was a trip to the Kalahari. ‘What will you do if you get lost?’ the man at the map shop asked. ‘I don’t
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Read the full article on Substack A long ago walk through the Sudd, the swampy headwaters of the Nile reminded me how essential story telling is to all of us and our lives. Fireflies drifted luminous and green through the lacy shadows of the acacia trees. A ring of thin cloud surrounded the moon, the
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This article originally appeared on 14 March 2026 in Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2026/3/14/kill-the-people-how-men-were-left-to-starve-in-a-south-african-gold-mine Ayanda Ndabeni watched the faint glow from his headlamp fight the vast darkness 1,500 metres (4,920 feet) below ground. His miner’s lamp had lasted for more than a week after he was lowered down into the shaft of the gold mine. But now
This article originally appeared on 8 March 2026 in The Daily Maverick. Their presence is as silent as bone, inhabiting a language of extreme quiet — a purity of existence beyond our perception. Human history roars and explodes all around us at this moment. The skylines of cities in the Middle East are outlined against
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This article originally appeared on 28 Mar 2012 in The Daily Maverick. Some of the most successful tales in recent years have been of imaginary worlds. From Star Wars through Harry Potter, The Matrix and now The Hunger Games, these “alternative” worlds have been phenomenal in every sense of the word. Maybe a re-imagined alternative world is what keeps ordinary Zimbabweans
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Justice must be done for the sake of our society, for healing the memory of our terrible past and, most importantly, to bring some closure to the families of the victims.
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In memory of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and those who have opened new connections between us and all sentient beings.
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