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If there’s one thing that has been consistent in South Africa, it’s change. Or rather, progression. And it’s glaringly so in Kliptown. More than two years ago, the Kliptown Youth Programme Centre was a humble set up of 2 old buildings with lots of unpaved land as the playground for 40...
The Final Bits of SA – A Day Of Golf Posted on May 13, 2013 in Bing , Nature , South Africa Ask the hubby what he will miss most about Johannesburg, and he will surely say the golf greens. This is a man who works hard on weekdays and should be catching up on sleep on weekends, but get...
So when we found out that the guys at the Lomography Embassy Store in Johannesburg were renting out their lomo gear AND taking folks out to Constitution Hill for an afternoon, the hubby and I signed up for it immediately. The Lomography Embassy Store is located in one of the coolest p...
The Final Bits of SA – Bush Babies Monkey Sanctuary Posted on Apr 17, 2013 in Bing , Nature , South Africa I’ve always wanted to visit the Bush Babies Monkey Sanctuary in Hartbeespoort, just 45 minutes away from Johannesburg. It’s one of those places where every one of my friends who ...
The first time was more than two years ago when we were fresh faces in Johannesburg. It was a Saturday afternoon and we had decided to venture beyond the 5km “safe” radius of our home and drive to the Chinatown in Johannesburg, a neighbourhood known as Cyrildene . I had asked a friend...
The Final Bits Of SA – Market on Main Posted on April 10, 2013 in Bing , South Africa Just like in October 2010, when we had to leave New Zealand for South Africa and we did our final round of seeing NZ, I’m now embarking on a journey to do as much as I can in SA before we move back t...
Street art in South Africa holds a very special space in my heart. Because it was street art and graffiti that first drew me into the inner city. From being a newcomer who was too scared to go out alone, or wear a watch while on the streets, I have now become a gungho Asian girl that ...
When I had become an expat wife years ago, and the only thing I could write on a space that asked for my occupation was “housewife”, I had felt lost. It had taken me months.. years, actually.. to come to terms with that. I had resisted any comments that I was a tai tai whose husband p...
