teaching

I see you, you see me

Recently a sweet child’s cheerful but brutal honesty brought me up short. I was at a school where the manager’s office is separated from the children’s play area solely by a child-proof safety gate. This means the Future Hope of our Nation can peek in at any time to make observations about whoever is inside. […]

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Sundowners and surfing

These days, there are so many words or phrases that I’m sure didn’t exist back in the days of my African youth. Spending my formative years in dusty Bulawayo (Google it, it is actually a place), the language I heard was clear and immediately understandable. “Sundowners, darling?” was my mother’s cue to open the generously

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