Category: South Africa
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Taking a Camera for a Walk
A few months ago my team at work did a photography course. The course was supposed to be two Saturdays. I was away for the first session but my colleagues filled me in so that I could do the homework and join the second session. I don’t consider myself great with a camera but I…
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Autumn Sunday Afternoon (slowing down)
The sky is the colour of winter. A little bit hazy; a little bit far away. Like high-school rugby matches from crowded concrete stands. Like long Grahamstown walks past frost-whitened fields. Like quiet days studying for mid-year exams. The air is still warmer, though. Still a sunny Autumn day. Still warm for now. Later there…
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Okapi
The DRC trip keeps returning to my mind. Everything keeps drifting in that direction. Kinshasa and Goma, Bunia and Beni come up in conversations, in news feeds, in humanitarian debate wormholes down which I have fallen. Last weekend I went to the zoo. I was with three well-traveled, cosmopolitan friends; the kind of friends with whom…