Meet Miss Moss
“I’m very shy,” says style blogger, Diana Moss, when I meet her at one of her favourite spots, Loading Bay in Cape Town. For reinforcement she has brought along a stylish yet intimidating beard attached to which is her fiancé, commercial film director, Anton Visser. We break the ice over flat-whites and tea and before [...]
The Rose of Cape Town
Rose Street. It straddles so many worlds it’s hard to get the measure of it. Is it Muslim, Bantu or Loud and Proud? Where are the hipsters? Do the hirsute disciples of authenticity fear the ancient beards of Bo Kaap?
Zambia’s Lundazi Castle
They said there were ghosts here, that they circled the towers and rattled their chains at night. I often woke to the tug of a toilet chain and a security guard muttering below my window. Did he say Rapunzel?
Let’s teach them
On this Africa Day let’s push for one single thing: education. Education. Education. It’s part of African government rhetoric but it’s tipexed after every parliamentary speech; scribbled out and locked in the dank cupboard of promises alongside those moulding textbooks. So, let’s open the doors. Let’s do everything we can despite government and help the [...]
It is the Maasai’s Mara after all
On returning from the Maasai Mara and surrounding plains, a few disappointed tourists who had been there asked if I had found the Maasai. Well, they’re everywhere, I said. No, no, one explained, we mean the real Maasai. They must have meant the Maasai as seen on TV, and that’s as real as it gets, [...]
The New Missionary
In Cape Maclear on the shores of Lake Malawi, fishermen fuel the lamps of their boats and depart for deeper waters. Darkness descends and in the distance the lamps ignite in quick succession dancing by the hundreds upon the water. It has been like this for centuries. On witnessing the spectacle, British missionary, David Livingstone, [...]
Riding the 22
There is a road in Mpumulanga with 22km of S-bends so perfectly proportioned it will bring a shiver to the spine of any keen biker. Anton Crone made the pilgrimage from Cape Town.
Walking among the beasts
The Honeyguide signaled it’s presence by calling to us from an Acacia tree. How could we not follow. And off he flew from tree to tree, chatter, chatter, chatter – follow me, follow me! After a short trek he stopped in a bush and put on his greatest performance yet, and there we saw a [...]
Because we’re not animals
Remember moaning about having to go to school? Parents coaxing you with cliches, like, the best time of your life or, you’re lucky, when I went to school I had to walk 5 miles, in the pouring rain! 120 boys pitched up at Mfuwe Secondary School without any coaxing, so keen on school that they [...]
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