Feb 13, 2009 Posted by saaleha

The heavens will comply

Tweet Today is Slie’s last day at frayintermedia. She joined us as an intern in 2007 and became a permanent staffer after serving her time. We fell into an easy friendship, jamming out spoken word in the smokeroom while she taught me bits of Xhosa and decided I was black enough. She’s moving on up to a great position as a communications... read more

Sep 1, 2008 Posted by saaleha

Day One

Tweet It was hard for me to bask in a spiritual infusion today, when my brain must’ve been trying to escape through my eye sockets, for all the pain I blinked back. Hello Caffeine Dependency, you are such a bastard. A website I was working on had its database eaten by some e-tokoloshe. That translated into two full days of work having to be compressed... read more

Jun 22, 2007 Posted by saaleha

capsule mthatha (a really little pill)

Tweet O.R Tambo International Airport – 6.15am. Take-off for Mthatha in a Jetstream 4100, one of those R/C looking propeller planes. (Blah photograph but I do like the Munsch-colours. We all begin in blood.)   The tallest building in town.    Mthatha - smells like: damp wood. tastes like: sweet veld grass. sounds like: unhurried... read more

Mar 7, 2007 Posted by saaleha

at the office…(2)

Tweet Rowena: “Guys, I saw this headline on a poster on my way to work today, ‘Benny burns Bolton’. Did Benny McCarthy burn Michael Bolton?” read more