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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

Aug 7, 2009

Gandhi's house for sale

Mahatma Gandhi lived in several locations in Johannesburg 100 years ago. One of those houses, in Orchards, is now on sale. The house, at 15 Pine Road, is owned by Nancy and Jarod Ball. They have lived in the house for the past 28 years, and have raised their three children in it. Now it’s time to move on. They are planning to move to Cape Town, and are sad to be leaving the house behind. ”I wish we could pick the house up and take it with us,” says Nancy Ball. It’s easy

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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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The man who laid down his life for his friends

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