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This morning I sat in front of Jacob Zuma, during a breakfast meeting at the Johannesburg Country Club, organized by the South African Institute of Race Relations.

The current ANC President was the guest of honour, and gave a fairly short » Continue Reading…

Vote for the most popular Transkei animal! :)

The Transkei offers a variety of wildlife – part 2…

Transkei Sheep

Transkei Ocean Cows

Transkei Ocean Goat

Transkei Dog

Which one is your favourite?

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Harare Barber Shop

So there I was, sitting in a really funky, old school barbershop in Harare, paging through a 1993 People Magazine Farmers Weekly…

killarneyfire

A couple of months ago I woke up to a loud bang, followed by the siren of a fire engine, which was so deafening it seemed to have woken up right next to me.

The electrical box in the adjacent apartment building exploded and started a fire. The whole commotion had half of Killarney’s inquisitive residents on the street, some in shock and some in awe.

My first instinct was to grab my camera and get a slice of the action – fires have always been a compelling subject matter to me, purely because of the action surrounding it. You have the flames, the heat, the danger. Then you have the firefighters, gearing up, running around, doing all sorts of stuff. And lastly you have the spectators, which are always interesting to watch and to photograph, like these twins, walking past the Killarney fire:

More pictures can be found on my Killarney Fire flickr set, and here is the Animoto version of the event:

Produced using Animoto, the really cool, funky, awesome, bestest automated multimedia production tool, try it if you haven’t yet!

Vundu : Monster Catfish “Vundu” for the unfortunate angler that has a hook up with one of these brutes rest assured will be entertained in a battle of a life time, reaching a size of over two hundred pounds (90kg) these steam trains will have the angler busy for hours.

What is a Vundu you might ask?
The Vundu is part of the catfish family.

Where do you find a Vundu?
Lake Kariba and the Middle Zambezi.

Bait used
Anglers’ bait preferences include ox livers, hearts, frogs, kidneys, meat and fish that have been cut down the belly and turned inside out.

Follow these steps to catch and fight the Vundu: » Continue Reading…

Whilst completing my studies in Grahamstown I found out that the city has close to 100 religious buildings. So I went on a mission to find them…

Some of the buildings resemble churches, some resemble homes, some basic run-down shacks…but all of them are places of worship.

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