From Peter Wills, Strand: I am glad that Marion Jordaan raised the issue of confession. I believe that practising Catholics do worry that they do not go to confession at least once a year, but many people work more than eight hours a day and travel another two to three hours.
Archive | August, 2010
No contest: cooperation rules
While the hosting of the football World Cup was a wonderful victory for all South Africans, I keep thinking back over those fabulous five weeks and the fierce national pride of the fans. Pride that sometimes turned to anger and vitriol at bad refereeing decisions and Uruguayan handballs and to incredible sadness and sometimes even [...]
Strangling Hélène
Upon doing something stupid in trying to find a balance to write this column, I was reminded of the French phrase: “J’ai étranglé Hélène” – “I have strangled Hélène”! After strangling to death his 70-year-old wife, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser exclaimed this in a rather casual, if not banal, manner. Excusing himself, Althusser later [...]
Pilgrimage 2013
The Digital Southern Cross
