You know it gets tiring playing the game. At first when you’re a teenager finishing school, going into college, university or directly to work you have no idea what people think of you when they see you or when you open your mouth. Maybe you don’t have much difficulty being white. From my travels I’ve…
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Lately, I’ve had loads of challenges. Trust me, when you read just a piece of it on the post under the news page dated 24th of March 2019 you will understand. Luckily, there are people who just know my soul. I’m an old soul and I enjoyed listening to my father when he gave me…
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I had no idea that listening would teach me so much until my voice got handcuffed. How many of us are forced to listen when freedom of speech is easily taken for granted and can’t be taken off someone unless there is an unfortunate turn of events? The answer to this is that very few…
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I have travelled around the world and seen so many amazing things as well as so many things that you’d be shocked to know but I won’t travel to certain countries on my own. Today I watched a video of a girl who was not even in her third day in India and wanted to…
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I feel like this topic needs to be addressed urgently because of the number of times I heard the phrase “religion separates people”. I agree that religion separates people for sure but that is not the only thing that is separating people. I’ve started travelling before the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers and back…
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I’ve lived in many countries, met many people and have done a lot of the things which I never thought I will do when I was eighteen years old. Growing up I felt that most people had a better shot to get to their dreams than me simply because things weren’t happening for me. Money…
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After leaving my ex-partner in the year 2013 I’ve faced challenges which quite frankly I had no idea existed. When you read my book The South African: True Colours the challenges there compared to the challenges with this particular experience is something I still wonder about. If there was ever a time where I thought…
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