Human Rights Analysis:
(Adapted from transcript of a speech I gave at the American Friends Service Committee on applying the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to current challenges in South Africa)
Good evening everyone and thank you for everything that you have all shared. …Read more
Reading the posts of my peers and picking up with colleagues at the end of their long days of work a common theme seems to rise to the surface. “Is what I contribute valuable? Is what I do seen?”…Read more
As we stepped through the doors of the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, I was reminded that I had been here before. Much younger and much more sheltered by the drone of energetic and distractible school children - I had been on the tour here at least twice.…Read more
When you are a young South African - one of the so-called “Born Frees” - living in what the world calls a young democracy it’s important not to forget to keep looking over your shoulder to see where you came from.…Read more
Sitting in a room on Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch - one of the many areas in South Africa with a painful history of forced removals and systematic destruction of community bonds, on what was the 365th anniversary of the arrival in 1652 in the Cape of the “settler”…Read more