Big city buzz is fabulous – in small doses. Small towns stole my heart a long time ago. Road trips through South Africa over many
Category: Eastern Cape
Eight things I love about Rhodes Village
The road has led me to Rhodes Village in the Eastern Cape Highlands and I’m slowly getting to savour the gems in this Southern Drakensberg
The green jewel of the east coast
Kwelera National Botanical Garden takes shape We’re standing in the middle of a wetland deep in the cultivated portion of the Kwelera National Botanical
The convenient face of corruption
When facts don’t get in the way of a story If you blinked in the past few weeks, you might have missed the complete clearing
Getting wild about a name
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
What a ride
Meet the inventor of the sidecar ambulance and clinic The road has been long and winding – from a north London workshop on a chilly
The anatomy of a scapegoating
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
The mask makers of Rhodes Village and Zakhele
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
Strange tastes indeed
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
Taking a walk with Nomama Mei
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.