Trip to KZN
I was away most of last week.
After the Divine Liturgy at St Nicholas of Japan Orthodox Church in Brixton, Johannesburg, I set off for Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, and spent a couple of nights with my cousin and her husband, Jenny and John Aitchison. I hadn't seen Jenny for about 8 years, so it was good to see her again.
John and I compared notes in our police files from the apartheid era -- we are working on an article on the attitudes and roles of the Security Police in a surveillance society, as fevealed in their correspondence with the Department of Justice about the two of us. We hope, eventually, to publish it in a historical journal.
Then I went to a conference at the African Enterprise centre in Pietermaritzburg, which I have described more fully, with pictures, here. There I met several old friends, and made some new ones. The conference was about chapter 17 of St John's Gospel, and a planned book on "The church Jesus prayed for".
On the way home on Friday I met another old friend in Ladysmith, Rod Smith, who had previously been rector of the Anglican parish of Ladysmith, and is now a full-time social worker.
After the Divine Liturgy at St Nicholas of Japan Orthodox Church in Brixton, Johannesburg, I set off for Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, and spent a couple of nights with my cousin and her husband, Jenny and John Aitchison. I hadn't seen Jenny for about 8 years, so it was good to see her again.
John and I compared notes in our police files from the apartheid era -- we are working on an article on the attitudes and roles of the Security Police in a surveillance society, as fevealed in their correspondence with the Department of Justice about the two of us. We hope, eventually, to publish it in a historical journal.
Then I went to a conference at the African Enterprise centre in Pietermaritzburg, which I have described more fully, with pictures, here. There I met several old friends, and made some new ones. The conference was about chapter 17 of St John's Gospel, and a planned book on "The church Jesus prayed for".
On the way home on Friday I met another old friend in Ladysmith, Rod Smith, who had previously been rector of the Anglican parish of Ladysmith, and is now a full-time social worker.