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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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Giving wings to scraps and threads
24 May 20202 June 2020 Janette Bennett

Giving wings to scraps and threads

People, Reinvention

Multi-talented Kathryn Harmer Fox has found her way to fibre art. Or maybe fibre art has found its way to her. Either way, we are grateful. Some days, Kathryn Harmer Fox’s paint box is scattered all over the floor of

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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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Wilderness man
8 January 202014 January 2020 Janette Bennett

Wilderness man

Environment, People, Trees, Wild things, Wilderness

Connecting with a legend of conservation, Paul Dutton, at his Shangri-La It’s a big and blue day on the beach at Salt Rock on KwaZulu-Natal’s North Coast, the kind when the air shimmers and you can see right through the

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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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An ode to singing souls
20 September 201221 November 2019 Under the milkwood

An ode to singing souls

Life

Whether it’s a passing touch of the blues or sheer horror that can persist for years, bad times happen to all of us. When I’ve been able to stand back and look at my own bad times with some sort

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