Kanthan's Blog

For womb the belles toil…

Sunday, 17 April 2022

Commercial surrogacy is illegal in most of the world. One country has turned this into a major industry.

A brief history of our national roads

Saturday, 16 April 2022

Many people will be travelling back home this Easter weekend and that sparked a thought rabbit hole about how our national roads have changed over my lifetime.

So I went looking and found a Department of Transport map of our national road network from 1959 which confirmed a lot of my childhood memories. Let me go through some of them:

KZN Floods: A tale of four bridges

Friday, 15 April 2022

Durban, like many great cities around the world, is built on a river. The Umgeni literally cuts the city in two.

So, who is your favourite diplomat?

Tuesday, 12 April 2022

When I was a kid, someone told me that “a diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a tactful way in such a way that that you’ll look forward with pleasure to making the trip.”

What about whataboutism though?

Monday, 11 April 2022

There are a number of ways we shut down conversations as human beings. In recent years, we created a term for one of those. We call it whatboutism or whataboutery...

No, I don't work there anymore...

Sunday, 10 April 2022

Five years ago today, I stepped down as MD of the Yired group of companies and Chief Executive of YFM. It was a symbolic departure date exactly 10 years to the day I had started, 10 April 2007...