South Africans celebrate not one, but two Women’s Days every year. First there’s International Women’s Day in March and then there’s the country’s own National Women’s Day on the 9th of August. The latter commemorates the day in 1956 when 20,000 women from all over South Africa marched on the Union Buildings, the administrative seat […]
Author: Andreas Spath
I'm a freelance writer and bookshop manager who lives in Cape Town, South Africa with my wife Sam and our two sons Josef (12) and Benjamin (10).
Weiner, Vitter, Spitzer, Ensign, Edwards, Tobias: One of These Is Not Like the Others
Watching the press conference held by Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) yesterday, my first reaction was, “What is it with these male politicians who think with their dicks and think the rest of us just fell off the turnip truck?” And a half hour into it, my second thought was, “Oy vey, please stop talking already.” […]


