The fluff and the thread
Cotton is the second most important cash crop in Zimbabwe and its production is on the rise. It gives an income to thousands of smallholder farmers...
14.8.2021
11:43
7.8.2021
17:15
Drawn by the father
You may have seen the story on the net of the man, competing in a race,...
26.7.2021
11:33
Thank you
I thought he was coming to ask me to do something but he wasn’t. He came...
10.7.2021
16:11
An idea whose time has come
Victor Hugo once wrote, ‘Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.’ I...
3.7.2021
19:29
The limits of our possibilities
Ferdinand Spit (Ferrie) was a Dutchman who worked with us at Silveira House in Zimbabwe in...
26.6.2021
13:48
Thus have we made the world
We are six months from Christmas! Someone in the early Church, following the scriptures and doing...
19.6.2021
18:01
Breaking the spiral
On 14 June we celebrated a 100th birthday with a difference. The centenarian wasn’t there. He...
12.6.2021
17:30
Listen to the music
Maria Callas was a supremely gifted Greek singer who died in 1977. People at the time...
22.5.2021
13:35
A flood of recognition
Suddenly it was clear to them. Up to then they were full of questions, sometimes in...
15.5.2021
13:42
Rising to the occasion
There is an English saying of unknown origin: ‘cometh the hour, cometh the man.’ It refers...
8.5.2021
9:58
‘He was lifted up’
We take it for granted but it is beautiful to look up into the sky and...
26.4.2021
16:47
A loss of roots
The burning of the Jagger Library on the main campus of the university of Cape Town...
18.4.2021
12:44
They stood there dumbfounded
It is said there is only one thing harder to take than bad news, and that...
