Why I Loved, And Still Love Mr Robin Williams

Fast forward to the present day. Many millions of good people are still blogging, tweeting and writing solidly about one of my favourite actors, Robin Williams, who died so sadly the other day. And so they should. I generally try and avoid joining the band wagon of Hollywood gossip, but because Mr Williams – or…

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My Name is Susan

I am unique. That much I have learned since I first began to formulate my thoughts and actions. Such thoughts and actions sadly caused my father to reject me, but, thankfully my mother still loves me. While I was born in a typically run-down suburb, today I am grateful. Thank God I was not born…

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Meeting Oskar Schindler

In spirit, as an agnostic Christian, chastised into the Roman Catholic faith from birth, along with my younger brother, Giovanni, I first met Austrian-born maverick entrepreneur, Oskar Schindler at Cape Town’s Victoria and Alfred Waterfront on the eve of South Africa’s first democratic elections. Unbeknown to us at that time, racially categorised Hutu’s were sharpening…

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The Holocaust Files are Open

The Holocaust, as a matter of history, cannot be denied, and similar atrocities that have followed it cannot be excused or accepted. My thoughts, feelings and strategies on writing about films in which the Holocaust is portrayed remains a work in progress. The current project, sub-titled, War and Literature, is drawing to a close. So,…

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