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Mac Tatcher
Mac Tatcher is THE Tatcher everyone in our village knows. He grew up in Elim (from old the place where the best South African tatchers come from) and moved to Stanford one day. There he has a thriving...
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African potato
… in flower. This is a bulb plant. Traditional medicin men/women (sangomas) in Southern Africa use it for a variety of healing purposes.
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African potato in flower
The bulb of the ‘African potato’ is one of the three main ingredients traditional healers in Southern Africa use in their medicin recipes. Even a des-integrating flower has its charm!
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The brick-maker left his signature
Look the the marks on some of the bricks (locally handcrafted in traditional way). This picture will be the background in a serie of 10 ‘Imaginary Street Art’ pictures which I start publishing in this...
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On the building site
Friends of us who recently moved to the village and open their restaurant in a few months time like to build and restore in the traditional way. Materials (like tatch) are resourced as close by as...
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A stroll through both sides of the village
The first day of this month I had a stroll through both sides of the village with good friend and colleague Annalize Mouton. ‘Both sides’ I mention because 20 years after ‘Apartheid’ there are still...
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