Amanzi is my nemesis- Adventures on the Fish River
(Culture)
Soutpans rapid springs to mind.
A smidgen over 200m of rocky river bed, a rollercoaster of white water beset by boat-ravenous boobytraps. Thrown out with around 150 m to go, I [...]
- Posted on 8th Oct 2010
by Stuart Hayward - 4 comments
Border Wars
(Travel)
As the coiled adder of xenophobia begins to unwind itself at home once again it might be time to ask ourselves whether others are battling a similar foe and what [...]
Read More- Posted on 30th Jul 2010
by Jerome Mitchell - 4 comments
Das Boot: To Bassas and Back
(Travel)
Bassas da India as a destination would please the old Nissan marketeers, remember the slogan “Life’s a journey, enjoy the ride”? Rising from the cold, dark depths of 3000 meters, [...]
Read More- Posted on 27th May 2010
by Jerome Mitchell - 6 comments
Emigrating to Aussie. Really?
(Travel)
R.J. Stove writes from Australia..
Sometimes a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of … emigrating.
And when it does, I often seem to hear about it. My e-mail inbox, quiescent until [...]
- Posted on 15th Apr 2010
by Guest Contribution - 4 comments
Stock Up On Baked Beans In June???
(Sport)
An email has been doing the rounds the last few weeks about how the 2010 FIFA World Cup is going to turn South Africans’ lives upside down.
Below is an extract [...]
- Posted on 7th Apr 2010
by Alistair Hayward - 2 comments
Vampire Long Weekend
(Travel)
I have just come back from the United States. Ten days in the land of the free and the living dead and I can’t get Vampires off the brain.
Americans are [...]
- Posted on 31st Mar 2010
by Jerome Mitchell - 0 comments