#JoziWalks2019 The month of May sees a couple of annual special events. One of them is the week-end of #JoziWalks when local Joziburgers host unique walking tours to discover different communities across the city. This year they are happening on the week-end of the 18th and 19th May. 2019 saw 35 applications (a 30% increase […]
Read More »I love the by-line header to the Kamers Makers website: We’re not into the perfectly made or the mass produced – it’s about high end true craft, slightly imperfect, timeless and originally designed… that special something that is only found at the show. I went for the first time last year with a friend who […]
Read More »Easter Sports Festival 2019 There are lots of chocolate bunnies in the supermarkets and the shelves are filled with Matzos … so that means that the schools rugby festival is coming up. One of, if not, the most important sporting event in the South African schools’ calendar, this Easter sports festival is hosted at 3 […]
Read More »I had a meeting to chat with the Glenda Moore the CEO of the Bryanston Organic Market about the exciting new developments with their on-line shopping portal. While wandering around the market I came across GreenPunk’s stall. And there was the ultimate Purple Hat and memories of that fabulous tour through the different ages of […]
Read More »The Kruger National Park is one of my favourite places in the world. There is nothing like those early mornings edging slowly down a gravel road, squinting into the rising sun, sipping hot coffee – all the while wondering what is around the next corner or what is happening a metre off the road in […]
Read More »I posted a blog some time back about an exhibition in August 2018 of works from the Keiskamma Art Project at the FADA gallery, University of Johannesburg Bunting Rd campus. Having learnt something about the project I turned to looking at other works which were not included in this exhibition. One such work is the renowned Keiskamma […]
Read More »Our human cousins Some time ago I wrote a blog which looked at how humans (the genus Homo) first evolved in Africa nearly 3 MYA [Million Years Ago] . They evolved from an earlier genus of apes called Australopithecus, meaning ‘Southern Ape’. But it seems we should not think of this development as linear, as one […]
Read More »How did Lucy get her name? Do you know where Lucy the 3.2 million year old Australopithecus Aferensis got her name from? Lucy was found in many pieces in 1974 in Hadar north-east Ethiopia by a paleoanthropologist, Donald Johansen. When the expedition returned to camp after working at the recovery site, the Beatles “Lucy in the […]
Read More »I get such Pleasure from my Psikhelekedana. Now that’s a show stopper if ever there was one. Psikhelekedana is a carving tradition from southern Mozambique. Small multi-figured wood sculptures are carved and painted in bright colours. My particular Psikhelekedana entitled Lobolo is by Sam Balói. Sam Balói Sam has had a very tough life. When […]
Read More »If written LOTS about Delta Park so for once …. few words. Rather some pics only from a glorious walk along the Spruit this morning. I skipped the Park Run (in my case Park Walk) and decided to make my way along the Spruit banks and enjoy the water birds. More on Craighall Park […]
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