Jozi Archives - Our Fireside Stories

South African Rugby Players celebrating 1995 Rugby World Cup victory

inChildhood, Expat Life, Nineties, Nostalgia

Why I love the Springboks

inJoburg, New South Africa, Only In SA, Post Y2K

Mystery at the Kensington Castle

inChildhood, Family, Food, Nineties, Nostalgia

That cake – the train one with the popcorn

That time when… Sitting around the kitchen table picking at leftovers after Christmas lunch or on the stoep as the sun goes down and braai smoke acts as a catalyst for tears and tales, or around a campfire singing Kumbaya. How else do we remember if not through stories—altered by time and confused by the fragility and fallibility of memory. The messy, tragic, beautiful, funny fables that make us who we are. The South Africa of our childhood and our parents’ childhood and their parents’ childhood and their aunty’s uncle’s mother’s friend’s childhood. And the South Africa of now, of course.

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Why I love the Springboks

The spanner and the stranger

Mystery at the Kensington Castle

That cake – the train one with the popcorn