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I have a BA HED (Higher Education Diploma), and a Tesol English 2nd Language Diploma. I have over 22 years’ teaching experience, and over 15 years’ writing experience, as a journalist in Johannesburg. For the past 3 years I have conducted tours of Joburg.

And when I’m not teaching or writing or conducting tours, I'll be taking in the Joburg vibes and events - it may be a book launch, an art exhibition opening, a touch of jazz, a talk on intriguing stuff . . . there's always something happening in this town, where I have lived for the past 36 years.

Come along on the journey with me - let's have fun exploring English and the city!

lucilledavie

Nov 4, 2011

Sophiatown and its people

The lively and cosmopolitan Sophiatown of old and the late archbishop and fierce anti-apartheid campaigner, Trevor Huddleston, will forever rest together. Huddleston wrote in his autobiography Naught for Your Comfort: “Sophiatown! It is not your physical beauty which makes you so loveable; not that soft line of colour which sometimes seems to strike across the greyness of your streets: not the splendour of the evening sky which turns your drabness into gold – it is none of th

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lucilledavie

Oct 1, 2001

A love affair with Sophiatown's people

On the first page of his book, Naught for Your Comfort (1956), the late Archbishop Trevor Huddleston recalls his response on being recalled to England after living in Johannesburg for 12 years. "I am in the process of dying," he said. "No one, I think, could call Johannesburg a lovely place," Huddleston wrote. "It is too stark and too uncompromising; too lacking in any softness of light and shade; too overwhelmingly and blatantly the centre of the Witwatersrand, to have much

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Sophiatown and its people

A love affair with Sophiatown's people

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