Archive for May, 2012

Khanya Blog

• Does Satanism pre-date Christianity? 12 August 2018
  Someone asked this on Quora — Does Satanism predate Christianity? And my reply on Quora: Probably not. According to the Christian mythos, Satan is the villain of the piece (the “piece” being life, the universe and everything). It was only after Satan had been established as the villain that some people decided they wanted to […]
• I can’t COPE any more 7 August 2018
  I was beginning to think that if I survived to vote in the 2019 general election, the only party that might be left that one could vote for with a good conscience was COPE, the Congress of the People Party. It seemed to be one of the very few parties that still took the Freedom […]
• In Memoriam: Stephen Pandula Gawe (1938-2018) 23 July 2018
  A few months ago I was privileged to attend the 80th birthday party of an old friend, Stephen Pandula Gawe, and now I have heard the sad new that he died on 18 July 2018, while staying with his daughter and son-in-law Nomtha and Antony Gray in Oxford, England. I’ve already said most of what […]
• Forward to the past: South Africa is back in 1985 17 July 2018
  When I hear the rhetoric of South Africa political leaders and the commentariat on the media, I sometimes think I’m stuck in a time warp. There was that film Back to the future. set in 1985, and going forward to 2015, but now we seem to be going back to 1985. Suddenly racism is back […]
• Literary mysteries and ancient treasure 4 July 2018
  I’ve just read a couple of books in the literary mysteries genre. Neither of them was a particularly good example of the genre, but there were some things about them that piqued my curiosity. I picked them out more or less at random from the library, and yet found that they were surprisingly similar in […]