Catherine Sofianos
Catherine Sofianos is communications specialist for the Canon Collins Trust. She is a writer and creative projects director and has worked in development communication for 17 years. She is a pioneer at heart and is passionately committed to using writing and visual storytelling to influence social change. She has a master's in applied linguistics and a pending master's in film and television
Namibia’s Blue Book of record: Part one
/ 4 February 2021

Namibia’s Blue Book of record: Part one

On 27 January, the world remembers the victims of the Holocaust, but it is also worth remembering the victims of Germany’s other, earlier genocide in Namibia. A rare book, commissioned by Britain in the early 1900s, stands as a record of the crimes against the Herero and the Nama

Under the power of the gun
/ 10 January 2021

Under the power of the gun

Children in the Cape Flats see violence very early in their lives and many end up in jail or killed. One of them, now a reformed gangster, walks us through his early traumatic experiences