Soweto
Hector Pieterson was only 12 when he was gunned down -- a hail of bullets cutting short the life of a young black boy and triggering what came to be…
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September 28, 2010
BIg Cats
I touched a lion for the first time in my life at Lion Encounter in Zimbabwe. Paul Dube, who has worked here five years, took me around, warning me to…
September 16, 2010
Mosi-oa-Tunya
Mosi-oa-Tunya means: the smoke that thunders.It's an appropriate name for what the British named Victoria Falls, the largest curtain of water in the world, a mile-wide cataract in the Zambezi…
September 12, 2010
Seeing through the colour lens
Driving through picturesque Cape Town and its environs in the Western Cape, I was truly awed. If you have ever driven down the Pacific Coast Highway, especially from San Francisco…
September 7, 2010
In Cape Town, I cried
I will start my southern Africa journey here, at the Slave Lodge in Cape Town. It is not where I physically began my 10-day trip to this part of the…
September 6, 2010