Wildlife conservation in South Africa and all over the world has its success stories and its failures. One of the greatest conservation success stories is the Addo Elephant Park in South Africa. It has become a popular destination attracting tourists from all over the world staying in some of the many Addo guest houses that are found on or next to the park. Some are privately owned, through a system of concessions and some are owned by the Addo Elephant Park itself. The accommodation ranges from the luxurious to the basic across all price ranges, much of it a far […]
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On this unforgettable day, also a hairdo day for Bena, there was no sound of federal jet fighters in the sky; the sun over the village of Akokwa had just set, permitting members of my family to congregate around the open backyard behind our house. As a child, you wouldn’t know that those moments were still wartime. Adults did not explain the inconsistencies—why, in the midst of hunger and anguish, families carried on with their daily lives, just as hate coexists with love. Using a wooden comb, Grandmother Elizabeth isolated moles, or crops of hair, on my sister’s scalp, tying […]