Monthly Archive: October 2014

Lakeside Lodge Entabeni. That’s where we are tonight. We traveled half a day out of Johannesburg to get here. The safari jeeps met us at the edge of the land preserve and we said...

The view from atop Table Mountain I know we think of the Fertile Crescent as the Cradle of Civilization but this southern tip of the continent we still get the rarest of biodiversity in...

Khayelitsha is an informal Township outside of Cape Town. One of the locals near my hotel tells me it’s not the worst, there are actually worse places in South Africa, and he names a...

Basic ethics asks that I look at what I’m doing and multiply that by everyone in the room and see if it’s sustainable. Could everyone live like me? Rev Alan Storey of the Central...

The flora of South Africa is more diversified than any other part of our planet. It is part of the beauty of this land. Diversification is one of its strengths. So often we talk...

Spending the day with former prisoner Eddie Daniels yesterday was a gift beyond compare. He kept thanking us, his listeners from all over the world, for applying pressure to, at first, ease the Apartheid...

Life south of the equator is in spring today. South Africa still needs so much more to to be in the full flower of summer. But the view of Table Mountain from my hotel,...