Author: borderjumpers

1000 Words About Durban, South Africa

We spent a couple of days in Durban which is the third largest city in South Africa. We arrived exhausted from Maputo, Mozambique after a 24-hour bus ride on Intercape (gotta love when they breakdown for hours in the middle of...

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1,000 Words About Malawi

Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. We spent a couple of amazing days in Lilongwe, Malawi – although it was cut short because we took an emergency flight back to Canada for the...

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Finding `Abundance’ in What is Local

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Richard Haigh runs Enaleni Farm outside Durban, South Africa, raising endangered Zulu sheep, Nguni cattle (a breed indigenous to South Africa that is very...

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