Riaan Boucher rarely wears gloves or a protective suit when on the job. I marvel as he reaches for a rooftop comb with his bare hands while a cigarette rests comfortably between his lips. Boucher is completely at home in a hive.
One of the biggest looming disasters of our time is global warming and if people don’t look after the environment, our chances of being able to adapt are very slim.
Nobody designed this settlement. For want of a better word, it grew. No architects, no plans: just chaos dancing with order and a pattern that repeats itself inside itself.
“Our world has changed from being a place where people did things, to a place where people buy things,” said Prof Rob O’Donoghue at last Friday’s talk on sustainable living. “But people in the Eastern Cape know how to make a plan,” he said.
Re: a new name for Grahamstown, there is one undoubtedly incorruptible, efficient and impartial municipal employee we know, the hated but respected traffic officer Bafo. Julia, let's go for KwaBafo!