Up-ending student leadership in our “new reality”
The past few months of 2020 have witnessed a flurry of opinion pieces written about this pandemic milieu in which…
The past few months of 2020 have witnessed a flurry of opinion pieces written about this pandemic milieu in which…
Conservation globally is a challenging battle. Movements against climate change, plastic pollution and deforestation in the Amazon are on the…
I was five years old in a church when a woman stood to give the children a story. In the…
At the start of this year, I stood in my mother’s house watching the BBC report on the new virus ravaging Wuhan City in Hubei Province, China. At the time…Continue Reading →
The quiet, unbearable loneliness of victimhood in an emotionally abusive relationship You know, it’s funny; when you look at someone…
The Pragmatic Progressive There is a line in a Ryan Lewis and Macklemore song: “it seems we’re more concerned with…
In a recent editorial piece, Die Matie’s editor, Lian van Wyk, expressed some pointed criticisms of protests on campus, and…
Earlier this year I described the dire situation of leadership on Stellenbosch University campus, specifically highlighting leaders dealing with mental health issues, or who are ill equipped for their positions.…Continue Reading →
Life on the outside is nothing like life in the colony Life on the outside is a breath of fresh…
Exam season has arrived – a time for nothing but stress, textbooks and summarising of notes that you have not…