Bravo Estela
Living in Grahamstown, a small settler town that began its life as a fort on the colonial frontier, is often hard work. On most days it seems that the spirit of John Graham, the British soldier sent to drive the Xhosa across the Fish River in 1811, would feel more at home in this […]
The Quiet Violence of Saints
Photo: Former South African president Nelson Mandela, who died on December 5, 2013, striking a boxer stance from his youth (and seems to almost sheath his fist), when greeting FW de Klerk at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 1992. Mandela had given De Klerk a verbal spanking a month earlier at the […]