Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Without doubt the Karoo is cold in the winter months. We are just back from field work based at Ganora Guest Farm, New Bethesda and it was gray and cloudy and cold. I managed to capture the grainy chill in these pictures: particularly in the skies towering over the gravel roads twisting through the big... Continue Reading →
Makana's Kop dominates the skyline over the township when you are down in the bowl where Grahamstown lies. There's a prominent straggle of fir trees on its crown and the oldest townships of Fingo and Tantyi run down towards you as you look up to it from the city centre. This sunset picture's taken from above city... Continue Reading →
Luveshni Odayar is one of my Masters students. Her work is provocatively entitled Post-Apartheid Apartheid and she presented some of her preliminary findings at the Canon Collins Scholars Conference held in Cape Town recently. Here she is, front row left, pictured with some of the scholars attending the event. Her work asks whether the patterns of... Continue Reading →
The Drakensberg above Maclear was burning when we arrived for field work last week. It was a typical winter veld fire that had swept through the farm land and got into the forested kloofs. We could see it snaking over the horizon and it was till going strong next day when we went into the... Continue Reading →
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