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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!

The man who laid down his life for his friends

lucilledavie

Apr 30, 2007

The man who laid down his life for his friends

It was such “an ordinary day”, the day 18 years ago that changed the life of Maggie Friedman, the partner of David Webster. On 1 May, 1989, Webster was gunned down outside his and Friedman’s home in Eleanor Street, Troyeville. ”That day completely changed my life – it took a completely different path to what it would have been,” says Friedman now, 18 years later. They had returned from doing ordinary things – walking the dogs. They had taken the dogs in Webster’s bakkie and r

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lucilledavie

Jan 21, 2004

Herman Charles Bosman, Joburg man

Herman Charles Bosman watched as they demolished the old Magistrate's Courts in downtown Joburg. And felt "a kind of silent fury". He wrote in his essay Old Johannesburg is Vanishing that the municipality had "no understanding of Johannesburg, no veneration for this city". He went on: "I don't suppose, for one thing, that they've got too many genuine Joh'burg old-timers on the Council. Otherwise we wouldn't have every Johannesburg building turned over to a demolition-gang the

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lucilledavie

Jan 3, 2003

Foster Gang: raiders of the secret cave

The police were out in force. Roadblocks were thrown up around the city. Residents were tittering with nervousness. Word spread: the gangsters had been traced to a hideout in a cave. The crowd had to be held back behind a fence as the tension mounted. Then shots were heard from deep inside the cave, and it was all over. The Foster Gang, wanted for murder and robbery, had chosen to take their own lives rather than surrender to the police. It was one of the most remarkable crim

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