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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A dweller on the threshold

By Tom Brown on Wed, 12 Jun 2013

After breakfast the doors were opened and it was as one man stumble stumble trip all fall down. All over the grounds littered like corpses patients were lying around sleeping on the lawns.
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

A full force gale

By Tom Brown on Wed, 17 Jul 2013

There was a guy who once stopped drinking his pills. He very soon discovered that he had quite a lot of energy.
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

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
Cherry

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

Disability and employment

By Tom Brown on Wed, 25 Jan 2017

One wonders how people with a mental illness qualify in sport. They are disabled but usually not physical in any way so they must compete on even...
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

Out Patients

By Tom Brown on Thu, 01 Apr 2021

Still in the old building Dr Joburg spent a lot of time when I saw him he knew me from the shock treatment already. He was my first doctor at...
Autobiography
Biography
Certificate U

Precious Time

By Tom Brown on Sun, 07 Jul 2013

Often I staggered as if drunk. I was working too hard with little rest and lost conciousness twice of exhaustion. I awoke with a fright terribly startled every morning.
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

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