By: Howard Feldman, Synthesis We are not Switzerland. Johannesburg is not Zurich, and the Drakensburg mountains are not the Alps, even if there is a ‘Little Switzerland’ somewhere in the range. We do have chocolates. Read More
By Howard Feldman, Synthesis This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and it seemed that Everybody was sure that Somebody would do Read More
By Howard Feldman, Synthesis God started it. God was one of the first that we know of who used His words for good. Pretty much right in the beginning of the whole book of Genesis Read More
By Howard Feldman, Synthesis No one has ever confused Simon’s Town and Midrand. Or Pretoria. They are as different as the Drakensburg and the Kalahari. Or Waterval Boven and Oranjeville. But in terms of recent Read More
By Howard Feldman, Synthesis For a short while, Johannesburg residents understood the term “Christmas in July.” That was when quite unpredictably it began to snow. Although the freezing weather and the cold front had come Read More
By Howard Feldman: Synthesis All this electricity is making me uneasy. Not only have I not had significant loadshedding over the last few weeks, but now there is talk of yet more power to come, Read More
By Howard Feldman There are days, to quote Moira Rose from the TV series Schitt’s Creek, when I am “positively bedeviled by meetings, et cetera”. Those are the days, when time is not my friend Read More
By Howard Feldman I am not sure what it says about my social life, but last week’s earthquake was the most fun we have had on Saturday night in years. Maybe even in decades. It Read More
By Howard Feldman Rather than having a negative view of President Cyril Ramaphosa when it comes to the now infamous Lady R vessel, I would consider an alternative. Perhaps this is the case of the Read More
By Howard Feldman I am often accused of being “too positive” and of seeing the glass half full when it comes to South Africa. And whereas I have no idea what “too positive” means, I Read More