2017 (As a memoir)

2017 In January my books arrive and after nearly 4 years without my novel I suddenly have books to sell again and I feel like I’ve started the year with the knowledge that I can Make Things Happen and it fills me with an optimism I’ve abandoned these past few […]

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A Moment (from the beach)

Once there was a moment when we didn’t say anything. We kept looking away. And I didn’t know what to say. And yet everything was said. The important things anyway. The important things always find a way to be said. Somehow. And then I went away. I walked to my […]

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A Moment (From The Morning Of)

On the morning Of, I went outside with the thick utility scissors and above the bin outside the backdoor (where, on winter nights in the dim yellow light I remember another moment), I cut up the last memory I have. The rubber is tiny and stiff and I struggle and […]

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South Africa’s Untold Success Story (Huffpost SA)

This story on the success of a Muslim minority in South Africa was originally published at the Huffington Post South Africa here:  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2017/04/09/south-africas-untold-success-story-a-christians-nations-peac_a_22032852/ Religion, the one thing that has divided the rest of the world so starkly, has not done so here. This has perhaps been one of the most […]

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South Africans Married to Foreigners Face Hurdles (Huffpost SA)

This piece on the hurdles South Africans face when married to foreigners was originally published in Huffington Post South Africa here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2017/02/13/for-south-africans-married-to-foreigners-there-are-more-than-th_a_21713128/ “I never thought I would marry a foreigner, let alone live in a different country,” Sarona Reddy a 34-year-old law graduate from Durban, tells me over Skype from […]

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For South African Indians Love Is Not Colour Blind (HuffPost SA)

My piece on skin lightening on South Africa’s Indian community for the Huffington Post. Originally published here http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2017/01/25/for-south-african-indians-love-isnt-colour-blind_a_21655793/ When I was little, an aunt pulled me aside to give me some marriage advice. She told me to find a man so fair that when he stood next to a white […]

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