Since 1995 South Africans have celebrated Human Rights Day on March 21, in memory of the Sharpeville anti-pass law protests on that day in 1960 when 69 people were shot by the police.

Do you believe in gremlins? Wikipedia gives a handy definition for a gremlin which might even be a little too “impish.” It describes an imp as “an imaginary creature commonly depicted as mischievous and mechanically oriented” and associated particularly with aircraft.

What a nice way to start the new year. I don’t go to movies very often, do occasionally watch a movie on TV but find so many films basically immoral, although often funny or clever. This particular one, I Don’t Know How She Does It, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, was both clever and funny, dealing [...]

At Christmas time we are reminded of the glory of God in the words sung by the angels. Holiness and glory do go together but in quite an enigmatic way.

Advent has sprung upon us. From now on for a whole year I am promoting the idea of “Day by Day with God and Family”. So please allow me a little deeper promotion of the idea and the resource material to go with it.

What can you say to a double orphan? You mean a child where both his or her parents have died? It is too easy to use words like orphans, double orphans or OVCs when in fact you are talking about children of all ages, boys and girls who are in shock, grieving, mourning the death [...]

Like any of those fortunate enough to own a swimming pool that needs to be put into order at the beginning of summer, I have been working on my pool.

In August, Women’s Month, I seem to have been faced with quite an emphasis on males, both men and boys. We reflected with the bishops on “Families in Crisis”. This was a response to the research report by the SA Institute of Race Relations on the state of families in South Africa which highlighted clearly [...]

Maybe I have a hang-up about empowered women; a concern that they will abandon their families and go off on their own mission. We have seen that happening.