I first met Deon du Plessis at the Sunday Tribune offices in Field Street during the early 1980s where he was deputy editor. He was a giant of a man — I stand close to 6 feet tall, but he towered over me and was almost twice as broad as I am.
Most of us who pick up a magazine or newspaper rarely think about the value chain resulting in the words we read ending up on paper.
'In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty,' Phil Ochs once said ...
This is the 9th month of the year 1999. There are 99 days to go to the last year of this century. Do you feel a sense of destiny?
My tribute to Dr Abu Asvat was published in The Daily Princetonian and since then has appeared in many other places.
How we deal with death is as important as how we deal with life...
"It was the worst of times, it was the best of times; … we had nothing before us, we had everything before us …"
If you knew that a rose would scream, would you still pluck it?
