Philippa Garson is a South African journalist, writer and media consultant living in New York. She has decades of experience writing in-depth, analytical articles, turning complex ideas into readable, compelling text, telling stories, and putting a human face to topics of international interest. Having worked as a journalist in South Africa for many years, she has a deep understanding of the challenges facing developing countries and societies in transition.
FEAR
"I must have blacked out for a couple of hours. My battered little Volkswagen beetle was a lonely sight in the otherwise vacant car park. My bag with my car keys was nowhere to be found."
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My Child has Crohn’s Disease
"A standardised New York City School Department Health form arrived from my children’s school, informing us that our youngest daughter Ella, aged seven, was on the third percentile for height. She was also underweight. It was hard to ignore the fact that Ella’s growth curve had flat-lined, and that her peers now stood head and shoulders above her."
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From Parkview in SA to Parkview in NY ...
"One mild Saturday in June we loaded our lives into a few suitcases and said goodbye to everyone we loved. I questioned for the millionth time the sanity of what we were doing turning our backs on our birthplace and tearing a ragged hole into our lives and those of our family and friends."
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Fear and loathing behind the lines
"My presence is forgotten and feel fear as I realise I’m alone in the midst of a vicious war. The war began a few days earlier when the hostel-dwellers and their families occupied houses bordering the hostel. A fierce fight is now in progress for the recapturing of a pitifully small scrap of land."