Tag: Riaan Visman

Desperadoes with magic on their side

What does it take for you to shelve your own values and leap in the path of a proverbial speeding truck for the sake of taking a shot at helping someone else? In episode 20 of Martyn le Roux’s serialised podcast, Die Soutwaterheks, our friends get to understand […]

There’s a thug on your stoep

MALE BRAVADO AND mermaid intrusiveness give episode 17 of Martyn le Roux’s serialised podcast, Die Soutwaterheks a bit of a kick back into the world of ordinary things, and out of the bamboozled circle of friends in the bar. You can find this foray into privacy, abuse and […]

We are stardust, we are misguided

SALACIA AND OUR friends explore the notion of everything, from Plato to Nazism, with reference to a lot of historical and scientific experiments and a nod to conspiracy theorists tossed into the mix, in episode 15 of Martyn le Roux’s serialised podcast, Die Soutwaterheks which you can find […]

A sound to shatter glass

ENERGY HAS A foreverness that completely transcends humanity’s knowledge, explains Salacia, the mermaid, in episode 14 of Martyn le Roux’s serialised podcast, Die Soutwaterheks, which you can find here. She gets Frans and his sea buddies to remember the lessons of Sunday School and understand them differently, as […]

Do you believe in love after life?

THE CLASSIC THING that any self-respecting ordinary guy will do after witnessing something astonishing is to take it to his buddies in the bar, for a detailed post-mortem over a drink. This is exactly what happens in episode four of Martyn Le Roux’s serialised tale Die Soutwaterheks, (The […]

Riders on the Storm

THE BIBLICAL ENORMITY of oceanic mischief and what the sea, in a fury, can do to you, is something that has long been the energy that pushes forward creative pens. It’s ineffable and so big that it is beyond our egotistic ability to contain or tame it. Picking […]

I see a little silhouette on the horizon

EPISODE TWO OF Martyn Le Roux’s Die Soutwaterheks positions the murky unknown in place. Recorded and released independently online, in both MP3 and MP4 formats, in Afrikaans with bits of English, it is accessible through various links, and breaks moulds of what storytelling can be in several ways. […]