Shosholoza!

By Tom Brown

“There is always something new out of Africa.”
 
 Ex Africa semper alliquid novi
–Pliny the Elder AD 23 - 79

 

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Attack and destroy!

By Tom Brown on Sat, 04 Jul 2020

In the mini bus our motto was “Val aan en vernietig!” Attack and destroy! For our away matches the team spirit was more like a rock band than a chess...
Autobiography
Biography
Certificate U
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Aunty Annie's Bible study sessions

By Tom Brown on Wed, 27 Mar 2013

We met at a normal conventional Bible study I was a visitor. I was treated well by the young people and felt welcome. Mary-Anne was apparently more of a guest speaker.
Autobiography
Story
Certificate 15

Bible Punching

By Tom Brown on Tue, 02 Aug 2016

They see you coming from a mile. It is often really really hard to break loose once they have their grip. They are wolves in sheep's clothes...
Spiritual
Biography
Certificate U
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Bread upon the water

By Tom Brown on Wed, 10 Jul 2019

We weren't actually supposed to be there but we discovered a hole in the fence you could get your bicycle in through too or lifted over the fence...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

Fishing Magic Morning

By Tom Brown on Thu, 18 Jul 2019

Up early still dark excited and happy we can't wait everything is ready. We wake and get up even before the early birds the empty streets very quiet...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

Love Longsuffering

By Tom Brown on Thu, 13 Apr 2017

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. ~ Genesis 29: 20 As a hart roams in the...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

Most beautiful of Love-Songs

By Tom Brown on Sat, 03 Apr 2010

Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

N1 Highway

By Tom Brown on Mon, 03 Feb 2020

This stretch of road they call the hell highway, past near that familiar silhouette of the famous ghost house of Pretoria. My brother had an accident...
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate U
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Siren!!

By Tom Brown on Wed, 03 Nov 2010

Mercedes-Benz fire engines in the bleak-deserted half-dark hangars are patiently waiting in echoes, polished to mirrors. A few men are still playing at cards and darts, there’s a chess game going.
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

The consultation

By Tom Brown on Thu, 15 Jul 2010

Lyttelton 1994 Dr v.Vake’s consulting rooms - - - “Please, have a seat. Your name?”, “Timothy Tucker.” “The complaint?”, “Chronic diarrhea.”
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

The guy

By Tom Brown on Sat, 26 Nov 2016

There was once a guy. On a typical day in the life of the guy he was woken by his mother's domestic worker with a mug of sweet tea next to his bed...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U
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The Nicotine Addict

By Tom Brown on Wed, 07 Jul 2021

What is Nicotine? A highly toxic poisonous chemical that works on the central nervous system both as stimulant or tranquilliser, the physiological...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate 12

Midnight and Darkness

By Tom Brown on Tue, 12 Jul 2022

Up a one way street lost and driving without my glasses even at night and drunk. This was very long ago and I was mentally not well at the time I don...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

Organic farming and lice

By Tom Brown on Fri, 22 Jul 2022

From Buffaloe's Town to Katkart had a late start looking for a place to sleep over. Some locals referred me to this “backpacker's” place not...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

The Maze

By Tom Brown on Sat, 06 Aug 2022

The Kruger Park is big. Really Big. Paul Kruger was a man with vision he established this wild reserve long ago. Once stumbling from a function a...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

Just a scared little boy

By Tom Brown on Thu, 11 Aug 2022

The other day in a mall nearby I lost my way it's like a maze there it was very scary. There are weird tunnels across the walkway from a supermarket...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

The Nicotine Addict

By Tom Brown on Tue, 16 Aug 2022

Can you blow circles one inside the other? And smoke out the mouth into the nose or put the cigarettes out on your tongue? Play chicken with a...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

Smoking Outside

By Tom Brown on Sun, 16 Oct 2022

One of my best friends at school's father was a senior officer in the Air Force, later on whenever I visited there he would forbid me from going...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U
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Jack Brown

By Tom Brown on Wed, 06 Dec 2023

My great grandfather Frank Brown was miraculously of a handful survivors in the battle of Delville Wood, where the South African infantry was wiped...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate 15
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The Black Dog

By Tom Brown on Fri, 22 Dec 2023

Jet fuel and petrol are ethanol, that is ethyl alcohol. It is highly combustible and surgical alcohol is generally used for disinfecting killing...
Other Non-fiction
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate U