A journey of poetry
Poetry to me has always been a form of travel. I first learned to love poetry at boarding school in the Eastern Cape in South Africa.
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Afghanistan
Memories of cricket and war in Afghanistan
I’m no supporter of the Taliban regime at all, but the news that South Africa will play Afghanistan in the World Cup caught my attention. It reminded me of my Afghan translator and fixer in the village of Khuja Bahauddin in northern Afghanistan only weeks after 9/11. I’ve never forgotten him and his love of cricket.
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The First Casualty of War is Truth – and Humanity is Close Behind
Photo by Алесь Усцінаў from Pexels The Ukrainians’ determined, courageous and principled fight against Russian greed and aggression will come to define the meaning of liberty for the 21st century. And it will be because they largely chose to allow the freedom for the truth to be sought and told. The shell whistled over the
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