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Getting wild about a name
19 March 202122 March 2021 Janette Bennett

Getting wild about a name

Ambles, Eastern Cape, Slow travel, Wild things

Trans the Kei is where you find the real deal Whenever I hear anyone talk about the Wild Coast, I think of the 280km shoreline of the former Transkei in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, which stretches like a

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What a ride
23 July 202024 July 2020 Janette Bennett

What a ride

Eastern Cape, People

Meet the inventor of the sidecar ambulance and clinic The road has been long and winding – from a north London workshop on a chilly morning into the imagination of a Saudi prince, on to the rural home of Nelson

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The anatomy of a scapegoating
8 July 202023 July 2020 Janette Bennett

The anatomy of a scapegoating

Eastern Cape, People

Motorbike sidecar ambulances and clinics are one of the best things to come out of the Eastern Cape. Yet certain quarters are trying their best to bludgeon the life out of this initiative that reaches into the heart of rural

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The mask makers of Rhodes Village and Zakhele
9 April 202021 April 2020 Janette Bennett

The mask makers of Rhodes Village and Zakhele

Coronavirus, Eastern Cape, Handmade, Life, People, Reinvention

Celebrating ordinary people emerging as heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic Long before the dust started settling on the mask-or-not debate, people in Rhodes Village and its Zakhele township in the mountains near the South Africa-Lesotho border were crossing old barriers

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Strange tastes indeed
24 January 202027 January 2020 Janette Bennett

Strange tastes indeed

Eastern Cape, Food, Garden, Vegetable gardens

Why do we consider eating snails from our garden and get excited about finding wild mushrooms? Are we remembering a time when we survived by foraging? Are we yearning for it? “Kowa!” I yell and tip the mushroom to view

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Taking a walk with Nomama Mei
2 December 201930 December 2019 Janette Bennett

Taking a walk with Nomama Mei

Eastern Cape, Environment, People

Nomama Mei and I are walking, and talking, along the shore of the Kwelera Nature Reserve, now part of the new Kwelera National Botanical Garden. Mid-sentence, she crouches and strokes a plant with wide, green leaves, just emerging from the

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Jewels of the bush
11 September 20126 December 2019 Under the milkwood

Jewels of the bush

Eastern Cape, Garden, Propagation

Not long after we moved to East London, I found myself wending my car along a dusty farm track. I was searching for a nursery I’d heard about, one with a great variety of bromeliads, indigenous bulbs and clivia. Suddenly,

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In search of the lemonwoods
3 September 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

In search of the lemonwoods

Ambles, Eastern Cape, Trees, Wild things

Up. The thin path winds through the forest, up and up the mountain. And we keep going. V and I are searching for the grove of lemonwood trees that we’ve heard about. We’re not even sure that we are on

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Go native
23 August 20126 December 2019 Under the milkwood

Go native

Eastern Cape, Environment, Garden, Trees, Wild things

Down here in South Africa, especially along the coast, we seem to have a perpetual fixation with palm trees. I know, I know … we’re trying to evoke a sense of being on a tropical island. Or something. But it’s

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50-something shades of blue
3 August 201221 November 2019 Under the milkwood

50-something shades of blue

Eastern Cape, Wild things

Fifty shades of grey? Not a chance. I am confronted with 50 shades of blue, at least 50, every day. Sometimes it seems that I have seen all 59 shades of blue (that’s apparently how many there were at last

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