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Talking to Matthew Buckland
Below is an interview with South African blogger extraordinaire and serial entrepreneur Matthew Buckland. We were on a van in the southern Cape for a few days moving in between a panoramic helicopter ride, Stormhoek and a night at the infamous Lanzerac Hotel.
Buckland is an online media guru, firstly in a product development and editorial guise, and then in the last 8 years in a managerial, business and product development role as GM of the Mail & Guardian Online.
He is also the co-founder of award-winning blog aggregator amatomu.com and group blog ThoughtLeader, which scored a (Webby Honoree and won SA blog of the year).
We Are How, and Who, We Eat
Dominic Stratford, a rising young star in paleoanthropology doing doctoral work at the University of Witwatersrand showed us round the caves at Sterkfontein — including his own excavations — then gave us a crash course on the rise of man at the site’s laboratory. Part one of his talk can be seen below. Follow the links to parts two and three.
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Carruthers
The brilliant Vincent Carruthers traces the history of the Magaliesberg from the dawn of time in this talk at Plumari Game Lodge.
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Team Player
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Sowetan Prophecy & Poetry
We hear from Prophet at the Credo Mutwa Cultural Village, an outdoor museum tucked in a hillside park in the Jabavu section of Soweto. The village is named after its creator, an artist, author and healer who began building the structures and sculptures in 1974.
Below is his narration. Watch and listen to his energy and passion.
The sculpture garden, also called Khayalendaba, or "Place of Stories," was empty when we arrived, but suddenly Prophet appeared to lead us on an oral journey. He provided mythical and religious meanings for the sculptures and symbols while weaving a tale of history and consequences, fables told and dreams interpreted, lessons learned, an amusing section on masculine and feminine energy, all delivered with passion and often with poetic energy, meter and heat.
The space is surrounded by a park with a landscaped garden and, at the top of the hill, the Oppenheimer Tower, which gives a full view of Soweto and beyond. The tower is named after a mining magnate who donated money for the construction of houses to replace shacks in the township.
We are reminded by Prophet countless times that the space is a sacred one.
Credo Mutwa is one of the many recent success stories of Soweto, rescued from disrepair in the last few years and restored with the help of some of the original builders.
Photos by Renee Blodgett
Toens
At Alexander Bay, we also met Toens Mostert, a wonderful character with features as weathered as the Richtersveld itself. He was working as a guide for John De Waal’s Richtersveld Tours. He was a fount of knowledge about local lore and places names. Here he speaks about his life and and ancestry in and out of the region.
Nkhesani Masilani
At Anglogold Ashanti’s Tau Tona mine, some 3.4 kilometres underground, we met a newly minted geologist. Over the din of men and machines, she talked to us about her work.
Soweto’s Mall Offers High-End Designers
Another recent Sowetan triumph is the Maponya Mall. With more than 180 tenants and 1.5 million monthly visitors, it’s Soweto’s first major upmarket retail space. It was built by Richard Maponya, an entrepreneur who bought the land in the 1980s and waited patiently for the political and economic landscape to change so that it could be built and that it could be supported by the locals.
It opened in 2007, a gorgeous space that looks along its middle like a sleek international airport terminal, with a selection of food purveyors, department stores and some upscale shops featuring goods that place design at a premium.
The parking lot was full of cars, as the video shows. Shopping, it turns out, is the international language.
Leaving Footprints in South Africa
I’ve just returned from spending ten days touring South Africa as one of nine U.S. bloggers who were brought in to write about the experience.
While the country certainly left an impression on us, we left a LeBron James-sized footprint on the world. I was invited to write about the plight of South Africa as it tries to be more sustainable, and it feels a bit hypocritical to have contributed so much in carbon emissions in the process.
The flights — including back and forth to Johannesburg, plus one commercial and two charter flights within the country total and three rides in a helicopter — total about 25,000 miles logged.
And then there were the bus rides — about 30 in all to hotels, restaurants and various travel destinations — for another 1,200 miles of road travel. By my rough calculations using TerraPass’ carbon calculator, that’s about 4 tons of carbon emissions for each of us, not including the impact of the energy burned in preparing the wonderful buffets and staying in hotels that are out of my normal travel budget.
Al Gore has been slammed for jetting around the world and preaching about climate change, and I expect some of you might also think our excursion was not worth the energy expended. But I hope that trying to enlighten myself and the world about how South Africa is striving for sustainability will get people thinking and eventually offset my travels.
We were exposed to a rich, proud and diverse culture, as you can see in my photo gallery, as well as in the pictures from my fellow bloggers. South Africa wants to become a first world nation, but with AIDS, poverty, and an economy based on the mining of natural resources, that won’t be easy.
In case you missed it, here’s what I wrote during my travels, with more analysis to come:
Finding Diamonds in Rough Seas
South Africa Has Joule of An EV
Cradle of Mankind’s Grave Lesson
Ballooning Over Oldest Mountains in the World
Nic Haralambous coverage of our blogging balloon trip over the oldest mountains in the world, located in South Africa’s Magaliesburg. Video uploaded to one of his many gigs, Zoopy, South Africa’s YouTube.
Below is a shot of owner Bill Harrop and his wife who founded the operation in 1981. Today, their ballooning grounds sits on beautiful South African countryside. Departure time? 5:30 am baby. It’s an early one, but they deliver with a welcoming champagne full buffet breakfast after you land. It’s not too difficult to see from the photos below how authentic and character-rich Harrop is – a joy to listen to and watch.
A fun hammy shots in the air and on the ground…..
Group shot in front of the deflated balloon which took eight strong men to manage and tie up. (all with a smile on their face)
And front a distance…….ah yes, amazing views. The color of the sky was breathtaking….
