In the midst of a pandemic, who wants to read about a life of the past?I regularly wonder if it’s still relevant, my story of the seventeen-year-old boy who desperately wanted to find freedom and the ANC; who walked over borders amid veld fires to go fight oppressors; and who, as an MK recruit, nagged …
15 May 2018. Trying to write about the first time I spent time with Ivan, on a visit to Lusaka at the end of 1990, I keep coming back to Operation Vula. Which is not very romantic, and therefore slightly annoying. I had just decided to put more romance into this thing, this book, but …
11 May 2018. Never mind the previous post. Doing his biography is still problematic. He doesn’t want this or that in it, why am I not interested in so- and -so, why don’t I do a bit more research into what Mozambique was like in 1974, because that is important too, and I must talk …
29 April 2018 Can one write a biography about one’s significant other? The journalistic answer would be no, since one is obviously too biased and personally involved. On the other hand many, including myself, would love to read what the spouse of someone who happens to be in the public spotlight would have to say …