South Africa
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” Ibn Batuta
Nepal
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
Ibn Batuta

Travel Blues
Sometimes, when travelling, you pray for something to go slightly wrong, not to derail your holiday or make it a horror, but just wrong enough to provide excitement and thrill …

Searching for the taste of South Africa
The first time I went to South Africa, in 2008, the one thing I wanted to taste very much was umqombothi. Chaka Chaka’s hit song in the 80s has never …

Crime and Writers in South Africa
For the first time in my life, I met a female cab driver. Women had driven me before, in their personal cars, and in an organization that I worked for …

The History of Humankind in Johannesburg
The perk of being a hardworking writer, especially if you put out a good piece of work like A Killing in the Sun, is that you get to go on …