QA 57. “Need I remind anyone, again?”

  • Posted by Helen Douglas
  • On March 6, 2017
Between 1987 and 1990, my husband Rob and I ran a safe house for the liberation movement in apartheid South Africa. We were part of what we would later learn was named Operation Vula, short for Vul’indlela (“Open the road” in Zulu). Its aim was to infiltrate exiled leaders of the African National Congress/Umkhonto we […]
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Archives of The Bus (#JWTC2014 Archives of the Non-racial)

  • Posted by Helen Douglas
  • On August 1, 2014
Did you miss the bus? Do you miss the bus? Here are two next-best things. My talk at Kalk Bay Books about my trip and the ideas that grabbed me is here. And the documentary film by Tjasa Kancler and Kirk Sides, featuring interviews with many of the participants, speakers and organisers, is up on Vimeo here.
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QA 30. Philosophy Café: Community in conversation

  • Posted by Helen Douglas
  • On November 2, 2011
It’s Tuesday night, and I’m just home from a philosophy café. I have hosted these monthly gatherings since I started my philosophical counselling practice in 2002. This year, we’ve been generously offered space in the lovely village bookshop, after hours – a perfect setting for conversation. We were thirteen this evening: some regulars, a couple […]
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