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89My top 10 philosophy books
This will be, necessarily, a very personal answer to the question asked by Ryan Hupfer about the 10 philosophy books it is essential to read.
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87Zita Park – a place of fun and reconciliation for all
Friday 12 December 2008 was my daughter Caitlin’s last day of nursery school. Next year its “big school” – grade 1 and the start of a whole new phase of life! To mark the auspicious day we...
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82Kindness – have we lost the knack?
World Kindness Day on 13 November - a challenge to all to perform some act of kindness on this day and by so doing contribute to a kinder, more caring world.
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85Historic Hartebeespoort Dam - the battle against pollution
A historic dam is threatened by pollution and a remediation project is launched to save it
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85Cape Town City images
A collection of photos taken during an hour long stroll around Cape Town's city centre
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84Soot in my eye – a nostalgic steam train ride
Steam trains were iconic in days gone by, but now the steam experience is mostly reduced to excursions with steam train preservation enthusiasts.
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80The journey of my life
The reason for my being born in Cape Town rather than in the then Transkei where my father was a teacher, was Hitler. He overshadowed my life from the start and in some ways still does.
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83A photographic walk in the old Transkei
Back in late 1963 when I was home from my first year at University, during the end of year vacation, my parents and I went for a long walk one day along what was known as "The Old Chief's Road", the "old" qualifying the road rather than the chief.
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77A Union Castle Miscellany
My father Murray McGregor was a life-long ship-lover whose main interests in ships and shipping were the four-funnelled cruisers of the Royal Navy (which were in service from the late 19th Century until the middle of the 20th Century) and the ships of the Royal Mail service between the United Kingdom and South Africa. This service lasted for more than a Century and was for that time a much-loved feature of South African sea-ports.
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82The Real Twelve Days of Christmas
Many people, especially those in the Christian tradition, around the world, know the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” but I think, like me, they might not know what the song is all about or what the 12...
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