Brent Meersman
Brent Meersman is a political novelist Primary Coloured, Reports Before Daybreak. He has been writing for the Mail & Guardian since 2003 about things that make life more enjoyable – the arts, literature and travel and in his Friday column, Once Bitten food. If comments on the internet are to be believed, he is a self-loathing white racist, an ultra-left counter-revolutionary, a neo-liberal communist capitalist, imperialist anarchist, and most proudly a bourgeois working-class lad. Or you can put the labels aside and read what he writes. Visit his website: www.meersman.co.za
Shattering dreams
/ 1 April 2011

Shattering dreams

Arthur Miller’s <i>Broken Glass</i> is an exploration of what happens to people when they surrender their own desires and disregard the truth.

Koeksisters in Camden
/ 18 March 2011

Koeksisters in Camden

In almost any London restaurant you can order rooibos tea. Fortnum and Mason’s exotic food hall range once carried vacuum-packed salted Mopani worms.