Born in 1949 in Johannesburg, Renfrew Christie grew up in boarding houses and the less salubrious parts of town as his mother struggled to make ends meet after his father died while he was still a small boy. With the stories of heroic deeds by family and friends in the battle against the Nazis in World War 2 the constant soundtrack of his childhood and youth, the King Edward VII school pupil very early on developed an understanding that apartheid was an evil from the same mould, and vowed to do what he could to bring about its end.
Called up for compulsory military service in the mid-1960s, Christie later described being on guard duty at the Lenz base on the periphery of what was not…
Literature: South African literature includes renowned authors like Nadine
Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, and Zakes Mda, who explore themes of identity and social justice.
Tangerine
Switzerland: You have two cows. Neither belong to you.
Moon Laser
A professor in South Africa is teaching her students how to form Emglish sentences.
“Attention class I have two words: Cheetah, and dandelion. Can anybody use these together in a sentence?”
One student raises their hand,
“The cheetah is faster dandelion.”