#3: The storyteller’s hat

Stories

You need to know something about me: I tell stories.
Not about anything, just things that capture my curiosity. I do not tell them because they inspire some, nor because I want them heard.
I tell them because I do not want to forget.

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The red on the rainbow

The very definition of theatre. Go watch it here in South Africa before the rest of the world catches on.

Reviews · 2022

When anxiety and insomnia leave you sleepless

What do they call it when panic sets in as you lie there, processing an emotion you never felt until now.

Journal · 2022

What my father and Phillips taught me about standards

There was a time the world had no standards, not even for which way a screw turns. My father had his own.

Essays · 2022

It’s a Tinder date

It is sunset, and I am sitting at the terrace next to the bar, curiously observing the olden architecture.

Journal · 2022

Modernly authentic

Kota Paleis, Braamfontein. I have often pondered what makes something authentic.

Reviews · 2020

3 am food run to Andiccios

It’s 3 am and an Uber slows then stops outside the corner restaurant. Four partygoers spill out.

Journal · 2020

Chasing sunrises

A few minutes before midnight on a Thursday, Njabulo and I are hurtling down the highway.

Travel · 2020

Becoming a property mogul without traditional capital

Conventional wisdom says you need an idea, a team, and plenty of capital. Conventional wisdom is missing something.

Essays · 2019

Stories to live by

Collected principles from the stories that raised me.

Essays