Paul Murray

Paul Murray is a retired history educator. He has a DPhil in the historical sciences from the University of Pretoria and a PhD in South African political history from Unisa. He writes on topics such as food, travel, politics and art. A specific area of interest is South African history and politics. A favourite pastime is viewing 12th and 13th century international Gothic art pieces.

The C Louis Leipoldt Trail

Paul Murray 2007-12-12 C Louis Leipoldt is associated with Afrikaans poetry. One thinks of classics such as "Oktobermaand", or "In die konsentrasiekamp". This polymath, cum universal cum Renaissance man was a fine chef. While studying medicine at ...

The Eland Trail

Paul Murray 2007-11-06 The roads in the Karoo are dusty Driving out into the open, breathing clean air … these are becoming newly discovered features of the ancient Karoo. The ...

Paul Murray reviews Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War 1914–1918

Paul Murray 2007-10-31

The Mamma Roma Trail

Paul Murray 2007-06-26 When you dine at Mamma Roma’s you can surely say Mamma Mia! Italians would exclaim the cooking is like Mamma’s – made with care and really nice. Like good Catholics they do not believe in cutting back on the number of Babba ...

Amazulu: In the Time of Shaka KaSenzangakhona, King of Kings

Paul Murray 2007-04-13

Die Prins: Du Toit’s Afrikaans does justice and pays tribute to a great writer

Paul Murray 2006-11-16

We are everything, yet we are nothing. Paul Murray reviews Michael Fryan's The Human Touch

Paul Murray 2006-10-16

Raam en Rigting in die Politiek en die Storie van Apartheid

Paul Murray 2006-08-21

Politieke Kaarte op die Tafel: Parlementêre Herinneringe by Japie Basson

Paul Murray 2006-07-21

Editing Leipoldt, an interesting and versatile person

Paul Murray 2006-07-21 C Louis Leipoldt (1880–1947) is the well-known Afrikaans writer canonised in Afrikaans literature as a major poet (Viljoen 1996:1). His first piece that was published he wrote when he was eleven. He ...