Tag: struggle

• Dorothy Nyembe

  May 17, 2017

  Durban Street Names

  Activist, Apartheid, Dorothy Nyembe, Durban, eThekwini, History, South Africa, Street Names, struggle, women

  Today I am profiling Dorothy Nyembe, formerly Gardiner Street. This woman was a force to be reckoned with!   Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe, known as “Mam D”, was born on 31 December 1931, near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal, and she died in Umlazi on 17 December 1998. Dorothy attended mission schools until grade 11, and at the…

• How To Be A Better Parent All The Time At Everything

  May 30, 2015

  Uncategorized

  advice, children, expectations, how to, humour, parenting, struggle, toddlers

  Dear Parent, You’re probably thirty-something. You probably have a child or two under the age of four. You never knew you could feel SO MUCH LOVE, but you also never knew it was going to be THIS HARD. There are moments of sheer delight, but they’re often separated by long, mundane hours that range from…