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This web page is supported by three columns.
Fortunately I have no record of any of the columns I wrote, spasmodically and under duress, as a 'stand-in' for columnists on various papers in my first 20 years in journalism. [though I do remember introducing to the world for the first time an unknown would-be author named Wilbur Smith, whose first novel - a banned and immediate bestseller - had not yet been published.]
Unfortunately I happen to have in my computer a whole file of columns from later years. They appeared under three titles:
--- Undercurrent Affairs – its title was a satire of an SA Broadcasting Corporation propaganda news programme of the apartheid era. The weekly column ran for 20 years. . . and outlasted the SABC’s “Current Affairs” commentary. Fortunately for almost all those years, there were no computers to store such columns and only a few cuttings remain. I'll append them as I find them.
--- Off the Wall – a less serious column that ran in the Sunday Star for a few years
---- That's Life - in similar style, in the Sunday Independent (after I 'retired'.).
This collection illustrates their lack of consistent style, tone and theme.
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