ARCHIVES: There are an estimated 32 million forcibly displaced Africans. Dr Imtiaz Sooliman and Gift of the Givers travel across the sub-continent providing disaster relief. But never mind all that, Iqbal Survé is ‘the King David of the 21st century’.
Several years ago, maybe three decades ago, I was asked to write an opinion piece on my editor, Aggrey Klaaste, as “the voice of reason”. Because I try not to read my own writing, a habit acquired many years ago, I don’t recall what it was that Iwrote. What I do remember was that I was embarrassed, I felt humiliated and a bit insulted when I was asked to write the article.
So, while I don’t know Iqbal Survé from Hlaudi Motsoeneng, everything I write here about Iqbal Survé is “moo” —I have over the years learned a thing or two about journalism; from reportage, copy editing to ethics , and over this period, I have developed some insights into the ways in which people present themselves, and especially how they actually behave.
What am I getting at? Well, it’s complicated. While Iqbal Survé spent his days and nights by the Old Man’s bed — being Nelson Mandela’s doctor and all — I was running around being a reporter, photojournalist, political correspondent and, now, I scrape by as a grumpy old fart and struggling writer. For the record, there really is a shortage of actual historical, not faith-based or biblical, evidence of an actual figure named David, nor of Abraham for that matter. As it goes, the earliest archaeological evidence for King David is the Tel Dan stele with inscriptions that date to the late ninth to mid-eighth century BCE.
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