WILD

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

A mathematical defence

By Tom Brown on Wed, 22 Jul 2009

Having grown up in a rural Afrikaner community Prof Sauer once told me the following story:
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

A Tribute to Selby Logan

By Tom Brown on Tue, 17 Feb 2015

In Memory of Selby Logan ( 1934 – 2007 ) Pretoria , August 2007 (Originally) Thank-you for the privilege to speak on behalf of the Brown family. To...
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate U

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

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
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Jacques: Picking up pebbles

By Tom Brown on Tue, 24 Nov 2015

Picking up pebbles and throwing them into the sea See the days of my childhood The white foam comes washing them all back to me When he was still a...
Biography
Story
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Jacques: Whole of the Moon

By Tom Brown on Tue, 24 Nov 2015

My brother is a lover and a poet, an unashamed dreamer with a brilliant fearless imagination. I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the Moon –...
Biography
Story
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Love & Chess

By Tom Brown on Sun, 26 Nov 2017

Chess is the ultimate board game but one could easily overdo it. Especially youngsters because the ambition always is to be the best, to be world...
Autobiography
Story
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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
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Making wishes

By Tom Brown on Tue, 21 Sep 2010

Dear V. Reflecting on advice long remembered: Watch out what you wish for, you might get it. Careful what you ask, you may not want what you get! Most of the time I’ve been fortunate.
Autobiography
Story
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Most beautiful of Love-Songs

By Tom Brown on Sat, 03 Apr 2010

Autobiography
Poem
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Mr B and The E.

By Tom Brown on Thu, 17 Jan 2013

The Kruger Park Just graduated and full of love of abstraction enthusiasm and vigour I attended my first conference, paid for entirely with saved pocket money.
Autobiography
Story
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My Father

By Tom Brown on Sat, 06 Dec 2014

My father could be a pig. My father was fat and sweaty and shiny. He was a slob. He was dirty, ugly and nasty, crude and obscene. He could get rowdy...
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate U
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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
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Sand heaps

By Tom Brown on Sat, 03 Oct 2009

They were our neighbours we moved in the same day we were both five years old. There were french drains and gravel roads and a blackout with each thunderstorm.
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 125

By Tom Brown on Sun, 29 Aug 2010

Our friend V. from next door was very aware of his masculinity even from the word go. At cricket practice after school when dropping the ball the teacher shouted at him: “Jou Koei!” (You Cow!).
Autobiography
Story
Certificate 12

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
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The Flag

By Tom Brown on Tue, 25 Aug 2015

Make no mistake South-Africa was preparing for full scale war. The enemy being “The Communists” with the “state religion” of Atheism, who were...
Miscellaneous
Non-fiction
Certificate 15

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 misty mirrors of childhood

By Tom Brown on Tue, 02 Jul 2013

“The land of Song within thee lies, Watered by living springs; “Holy thoughts, like stars, arise, Its clouds are angels' wings.”
Autobiography
Story
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The secret obsession of Timothy Tucker

By Tom Brown on Fri, 08 Jan 2010

Irene 1974
Autobiography
Story
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The wicker basket

By Tom Brown on Thu, 03 Jun 2010

Dad was holy on his Sunday afternoon nap. It usually resulted in good sports followed by a descent hiding all round.
Autobiography
Story
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Yebo!

By Tom Brown on Thu, 30 May 2013

The Zulu salutation is “Yebo” (or YeeEbo!) Yes! And the greeting is returned by, how are you? “Ninjani!” Customs and traditions in South-Africa
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate U

You're maybe wrong

By Tom Brown on Thu, 14 Mar 2013

You're maybe right “Friday night I crashed your party, Saturday I said I'm sorry Sunday came and thrashed it out again
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

Sprinkler Rainbows

By Tom Brown on Wed, 17 Jan 2018

My father was a qualified petrol mechanic but he didn't own one new car in his life. He was very good and was reliable at his work. He had a problem...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U
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Mr P and Mr B

By Tom Brown on Sun, 10 Mar 2019

There I fell in love with his daughter but soon found him much more interesting company. Since my friends and those guys said he was a master “ 'n...
Biography
Story
Certificate U
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Mamma

By Tom Brown on Sat, 04 May 2019

She worked for the education department for more than forty years. At the start it was mostly private companies and computer programming. These were...
Autobiography
Non-fiction
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
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

Our President

By Tom Brown on Mon, 16 Dec 2019

Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa A High School Essay December 2019 The apartheid secret police had him in solitary for eleven months. Can you imagine how...
Biography
Non-fiction
Certificate U
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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

2020 South Africa 80s'

By Tom Brown on Wed, 06 May 2020

There have been many stories and books movies and documentaries about struggle heroes freedom fighters and the terrible suffering under apartheid and...
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate 18
Cherry

The bottle and spanner

By Tom Brown on Thu, 04 Jun 2020

I came into this world with a bottle in one hand and a spanner in the other, in my nappies I didn't know what I was in for. My dad explained the moon...
Autobiography
Non-fiction
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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The Mathematician

By Tom Brown on Wed, 29 Jul 2020

One could go to his office with a problem anytime. It was correspondence university so there weren't too many students to be a bother. You could ask...
Biography
Biography
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A world of fantasy and wonders

By Tom Brown on Sat, 14 Nov 2020

As a small child after an afternoon shower walking alone along the road I saw a small dirty oily puddle with all kinds of magic colours flowing into...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U
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Exploring a New world

By Tom Brown on Sat, 21 Nov 2020

Butterflies dragonflies frogs and tadpoles from streams and pools between reeds and lilies catching ladybugs and digging up earthworms under rocks...
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate U
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The Miracle Worker – Eugène Marais

By Tom Brown on Sat, 02 Jan 2021

Eugène Nielen Marais was a South African lawyer an advocate, naturalist, journalist and editor, writer as well as accomplished and famous hypnotist...
Biography
Non-fiction
Certificate U
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The Doctor

By Tom Brown on Wed, 31 Mar 2021

He was my first doctor at outpatients he had assisted in the shock therapy he knew me. I was devastated. Even then already he warned of drinking and...
Autobiography
Biography
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
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Covid Optimism

By Tom Brown on Tue, 27 Apr 2021

South Africa Freedom Day Today we celebrate the freedom of our young rainbow nation and our beautiful land and give thanks and gratitude in prayer...
Biography
Non-fiction
Certificate U
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