I hate how I’ve written you more poems than anyone I’ve ever met in my human existence. I hate how, I hate that, I hate you when we both know that I couldn’t hate you. I hate that we both know that hate isn’t the main ingredient in this recipe but it feels so much more safer to scream I hate you than to say I love you. And yes I do and you do too, Hate in the way our eyes meet when we are about to make bad decisions with our bodies. Hate in the way we throw back-and-forth speech with harsh tones and unfiltered truths about each…

The passing away of Venilla Pinky Padayachee, a beloved educator, mentor, matriarch, and wife of renowned journalist Marlan Padayachee, has left a profound void in the hearts of many. Pinky, aged 65, passed at a Durban hospital, after a courageous battle with cancer. Her legacy as a devoted teacher and advocate for education was celebrated during a heartfelt funeral service and cremation at the Clare Estate Hindu Crematorium, which drew nearly 600 family, friends, and mourners. Tributes poured in from around the world, honouring her four-decade contribution to special and remedial education, a calling she embraced since the 1980s and continued to serve with unwavering passion until the final months…

“South Africa should leverage the World Economic Forum to highlight its work in preparation for its G20 Presidency. These two forums are interconnected, so South Africa must use the World Economic Forum to emphasise its efforts under the G20 presidency.” – Xhanti Payi, South Africa’s senior economist. A coup de grâce for the Rainbow Nation to host the world’s top 20 powerhouses Fresh from leading the trailblazing Government of National Unity (GNU) delegation to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, President Cyril Ramaphosa now faces the critical mission of elevating South Africa’s global economic standing as the country prepares to host the G20 Summit. South Africa assumed the…

Life rarely announces its changes. They slip in quietly, like a soft breeze on a still day, unsettling the leaves just enough to remind you that nothing stays the same. There is no grand arrival of clarity, no perfect moment where everything falls into place. Change comes when it wants, and more often than not, it feels like being caught in a storm without shelter. I know this because I’ve lived it; those moments where the ground beneath you shifts, where the familiar dissolves into uncertainty. Transitions have been the backdrop of my life, from leaving places I called home to letting go of people I thought I’d always have.…

Transitions are the spaces between what was and what will be. They mark the moments when the known world shifts, leaving behind familiar certainties and ushering in the unexplored. These shifts—whether born of political upheaval, personal loss, or societal decay—carry the weight of transformation, often painful but always revealing. They remind us of that change, though unsettling, is the thread that binds all aspects of life, weaving together the personal and the collective, the past and the future. The transformation of places and people often reflect deeper emotional and spiritual currents. Streets that once thrived with life can grow silent, echoing the toll of political failures and social fractures. Physical…

Rwanda, in central Africa, is my new home. After seven years living in China, and thoroughly enjoying being there, I am now back in Africa. Between the two countries I spent six months in South Africa, at the mysterious place named McDougall’s Bay. On the first Friday I was in Rwanda, my wife Kathy and I found our way to the Nyamata Genocide Memorial. We were there towards the end of the afternoon. Singing, more mournful, soulful and grateful than I had ever heard before, came from a Catholic church about 40 metres away. We went inside the church to find people with their arms raised high and singing with…