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Author Archives: Linda Martindale

Glimmers in the Darkened Night …

February 19, 2026

I am glimmers girl! Long before it had this name – I have tended to look on the bright side …

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Hands Held Up

November 3, 2024

This one needs an intro! Some thoughts and feelings about my 13-year journey with Kienbocks Disease where a bone in …

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No Table will be laid today

September 7, 2023

The hardest thing about losing someone important, loved and present in one’s life is that often, you don’t know when …

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11+ years in manenberg – I am learning

September 4, 2022

Originally posted on she rambles:
I found this in the depths of my ramblings and never shared or maybe I did,…

Another way – a living wage

January 13, 2022

For a number of years I was involved in an employment organisation based in Gugulethu, one of Cape Town’s oldest …

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Going Upstream

January 13, 2022

Brazilian Catholic Archbishop, Hélder Pessoa Câmara, is noted for saying, “When I give food to the poor, they call me …

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Good question, but we may not like the answer

January 25, 2021

(An old letter from 2015, but relevant today still) Letter to Cape Talk in response to a caller who asked …

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To the South African Church

June 22, 2020

True Fasting 58 “Shout it aloud, do not hold back.    Raise your voice like a trumpet.Declare to my people their rebellion    and to the …

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Three ways to be a better human

March 13, 2020

I had to write this quickly for a freelance entrance application last week and thought I may as well post …

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Quick to listen …

April 25, 2017

I wrote my shortest blog post ever a few years ago (see here) about the need for white people to …

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