Trump, the Zondo Commission and malignant normality
The American psychiatrist, Robert Jay Lifton, coined the term “malignant normality” to refer to a degenerative social phenomenon in which large numbers of people view reality through the skewed lens of a political leader and even adopt his traits.
Jika Joe Informal Settlement
Jika Joe is an informal settlement that straddles both banks of the Dorpspruit River in the centre of Pietermaritzburg, the capital city of the province of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa. Jika Joe is one of many informal settlements on the outskirts of South African Cities; its bulk is made of mud, scraps of wood […]
Where Words Take Us – Throat
Although no human can hope to have such a display of splendour at the throat, our own throats are pretty spectacular. A silent air-traffic controller without which we would simply stop breathing.
Sections of Songs that changed my life.
Music has meaning in almost everyone’s life. Most people have favourite tunes, composers or bands. BUT – what has special import for you? Why does one piece get you going? Which melody changed your life? Read what does it for me, and why.
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Review by Arja Salafranca Hamnet is acclaimed Irish writer Maggie O’Farrell’s lyrical imagining of the life of Anne Hathaway, the woman William Shakespeare married in 1582. Hamnet was their son, who died at the age of eleven, possibly from the plague. Four years later Shakespeare wrote Hamlet. In the sixteenth century, […]