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The Sheppie Local, the Surf Champ and the Coach: Heather Clark

The Sheppie Local, the Surf Champ and the Coach: Heather Clark

We drove down the South Coast and spoke with South Africa’s most decorated woman surfer, Heather Clark.

As South Africa’s most decorated women surfer, Heather has reached many proud milestones in her career, one of which, the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, has yet to be achieved by a South African man.

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The Blogger, the Journalist and the Literatus: James Murua

The Blogger, the Journalist and the Literatus: James Murua

We meet James Murua, a blogger, journalist, editor and columnist from Nairobi, Kenya visiting Durban’s humid shores. As one of the few bloggers covering the African literary scene so comprehensively I wanted to take the opportunity of James’ visit, attending and being a panelist at the Time of the Writer – to pick his brain about what’s happening out there and which authors we should be watching.

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The Inyanga, the Sangoma and the Herbalist: Elliot Ndlovu

The Inyanga, the Sangoma and the Herbalist: Elliot Ndlovu

In our ongoing quest to find out more about Zulu traditional beliefs, we meet Elliot Ndlovu, a sangoma, inyanga and herbalist. We took a trip to his farm outside Mooiriver in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands where he showed us his vast collection of medicinal plants, and explained his ukuthwasa (initiation) process where he was given this vital knowledge from his ancestors.

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