Hello Alan I enjoyed your recent editorial comment dated 5th April 2020 regarding the deluge of fake news doing the rounds on social media about COVID19, even if my eyes started watering somewhat by the choice expletives used! Most folks probably fully understand and appreciate the sentiment, though. Bluntness is sometimes the best approach. Just wondering whether this crazy and uncertain time isn't bringing out some of the mentally ill /personality disordered folks among us to spread … [Read more...] about Fake News In This Time of Coronavirus Pandemic
nina bodisch
Your Article: Are you just going through the motions or asking; “Well, how did I get here?” 29 December 2017
Hi Alan, Thanks for your very insightful article published recently about your thoughts on Conscription in SA in the bad old apartheid years. There is so much that people don't talk about of the past, and yet everyone was affected in some way and most South Africans nowadays walk around with what Eckhart Tolle, the spiritual author, would call a "Pain Body" of painful experiences from the past. And as you've mentioned, the hurtful legacy of our country's past continues to make itself … [Read more...] about Your Article: Are you just going through the motions or asking; “Well, how did I get here?” 29 December 2017
Fervent Wish While South Africa Burns
Dear Editor, A rising sense of desperation is gripping our country, while Zuma and his cronies continue to plunder our country with impunity, no matter how much they are being exposed and shamed. So as a result, we have this difficult to comprehend, self-destructive dynamic taking place in the poorest of poor communities, the so-called "service delivery protests". In effect, the country is imploding and burning because desperate people are too reckless to care and too confused to … [Read more...] about Fervent Wish While South Africa Burns
Armed Forces Week Saddens
Dear Alan So much hype is doing the rounds about the Military Capability exercise currently under-way in PE. Just makes me reflect on what a sad state of affairs our entire planet is in, that this type of thing is even necessary. I guess people like me also belong on our own planet because I just cannot help but feel sad, as opposed to excited, about weapons being shot and lighting up the night sky, when those same weapons maim, kill, destroy, incite hatred and catapult human beings into … [Read more...] about Armed Forces Week Saddens
