Editorial

Over the weekend, watching the rain, sun, wind and clouds play hide and seek, my eyes came to rest on the top of a Mulberry Tree, moved on to spreading Loquat trees, squinted a bit at a Quince Tree and panned…
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Have we become out of touch with what is important and of value in life?  Do individuals decide what is important in their lives not what others find important?  Social media provides platforms to spread idle speculation and pics with…
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Babies do not come with instruction manuals. No guarantee if they did that anyone would be able to read them, understand or apply the knowledge acquired. When you want or need to take out a bond or loan on anything…
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JUNE EDITORIAL Working with students of different ages and stages of their lives is completely absorbing. Because of the variety of the work  I come into contact with people from different backgrounds culturally and economically. The variety of professions and…
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So much of who we are and what we become is beyond our control: Our genetic make-up, whether we have good parents who provide what is necessary, where we are born and what the economic and political conditions of the…
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The drought here in Cape Town has raised quite a few cultural issues in my mind. Culture of any one group or another never stays the same, culture is not static. People have to change and adapt to situations as…
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2018 and we are off to a flying start.  Positivity here we come.  Let’s get things done.  Shake off your lethargy people, holidays are behind us and everyone needs to get stuck into work, those lucky (hard working) enough to…
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DECEMBER EDITORIAL At the end of the year many do a lot of house-keeping and tidying up either because they expect visitors or because they have holidays and have the time to do so.  I am doing some housekeeping and…
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