A walk on the beach (a love poem)

 My best friend, Bradley Minnaar, quit his job at a software company and moved to Rhodes University, Grahamstown, for a while. While living there he started writing the most amazing poetry. Here’s just one example of his amazing prowess as a wordsmith… If I was the sea my loveIf I was the sea;Who sends its […]

Ramon Thomas interviews Big Brother’s Mark Pilgrim

 Mark Pilgrim is one of the most recognisable radio and television personalities in South Africa. His first love has always been radio, and for the past 10 years, listeners have enjoyed his warm (and somewhat wry) sense of humour.RT: What is your current relationship status….and why?MP: I am seeing someone new. I have just come […]

Saturday night fever

 It’s one of those Saturday nights where I’m feeling between the shadows and the soul, as Neruda once said. My final research report is due next week, so I can complete my Post Graduate Diploma in Information Management from the University of Johannesburg (old RAU). So I have to dig in and resist the temptation […]

Meeting and Dating Positive People Online

 What if you had a secret? A secret so big that, when revealed, it would make your girlfriend/boyfriend pull away from you in fear of contamination. This would be a hurtful experience. However, this is what faces many HIV positive people. To help HIV positive people find an ideal partner who shares or accepts their […]

Falling in Love by Francesco Alberoni

 It should come as no surprise that the subject of this book is, of course, love. More specifically, Alberoni deals with those all-too-brief and utterly captivating moments when one first falls in love. He attempts to unlock all the rather bizarre and, sometimes, completely diotic forces that drive our behaviour in this frenzied state. For […]