Swart Donkey

A visual and visceral reminder that I am a Soutie is the change of seasons in the UK. I grew up in Durban where it was usually hot or very ...

I was a good value tease at school. You knew you would get a reaction. I wasn't the only one. Aged 12, I can remember standing in a cir...

I love Rugby. Mostly I hate it. It has the ability to pull all the joy out of my world. A Test Match can feel like I am having to sit thro...

Creating opportunities for community building is hard. It is very tempting for us to spend time with people who are the same as us. I...

The All Blacks take the love of rugby to a spiritual level. When South Africa play New Zealand, the rest of the world ceases to exist f...

The Rugby World Cup has come and gone. Jonathan ( Chill Out and Work Hard ), Tota ( Bishopscourt and Bonteheuwel ) , Sindile ( Overcoming B...

I first came to England for two years in between school and university. I was a teaching assistant at a Prep School in Chichester. While th...

It is difficult to concentrate on anything else when the All Blacks are playing the Springboks. I remember the week running up to the 1995 ...

In 2007 I was in England on holiday during the Rugby World Cup. The tickets are stupid expensive, but it is the Rugby World Cup. I was half...

Rugby isn't really a world sport. But when in places which don't play rugby, you can often find an Aussie or Irish pub if there ar...

One of the reasons I don't like party politics is it makes no sense to me. It is like saying, 'We don't know what we are going...

In South Africa, as around the rest of the world (probably), we like to tease Americans for knowing almost nothing about anywhere other tha...

It isn't good enough to know the rules of a game to get into it. The stuff that matters is being able to have a little righteous indig...

I have spent a wonderful month with the various members of a family of whom I am very fond. As close friends of my parents we spent lots of...

Cricket is brutal. My friend Rob and I who enjoy leaning deeply into supporting our teams recently started asking each other whether it was...

Errol Stewart was a legend old boy from the school I went to. He played rugby for our provincial rugby side, and represented South Africa ...

I don't want to hide in a cave. Some philosophers and religions argue for detaching from earthly things in order to find true happiness...