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Gary Albyn was born in the old Rhodesia in 1960 and grew up in Umtali on the eastern border with Mozambique. An avid outdoorsman, ...
Alexandre Binda was born in Beira, Mozambique in 1945. He joined the Rhodesian Army in 1965. Although he had attested into the Pay...
Dr. Sarah Britten has been described by Barry Ronge as “Hitler with tits”. Her first piece of comic reportage, on the wonders ...
Philip Briggs is a travel writer specialising in Africa. Born in the UK and raised in South Africa, he first backpacked between Na...
AJ Brooks was asked to write an article on the South African involvement in the 1984 Operation Askari. Stan Monick publis...
Chris Cocks lives in Johannesburg. He is a partner in the recently established South African publishing house, 30° South Publishe...
Kerrin Cocks was born in Pretoria in 1976. Her father was the Director of the Johannesburg Zoo where she spent her childhood. She ...
For Allan Davie, it all began with a fascination with dinosaurs at a young age and names like Stegosaurus and Dimetro...
Licínio de Azevedo arrived in Mozambique in 1977 in order to work in the National Film Institute researching stories of the War o...
Andrew de Klerk, with his almost pathological passion for rugby football, was born in 1979, and grew up in the small educational t...
Scott Thomas Firsing, an American citizen who currently resides and works in Johannesburg, South Africa, is the Assistant Principa...
David Fleminger is a writer and director, working in the media industry for the last 12 years. His passion for travel began as a c...
Peter Gibbs was born in London in 1903, educated at Aldenham, and lived in Bulawayo since 1936. A number of his books have been pu...
Adriaan Groenewald...
Lee Gutteridge was born in Sheffield, England, in 1973. His parents moved to South Africa in 1982, where he was educated. Since hi...
Peter Hewitt was born in Windsor with the Great Depression looming, his adolescent years were passed in Reading, also on the Thame...
Graham Jooste, born in Greylingstad, lives in Johannesburg and considers himself semi-retired. Graham is passionate about both his...
Patrick King, producer, writer and director, entered the British film industry in 1968, starting as a trainee in wardrobe and prop...
Granger Korff. 1960—Cassius Clay won Olympic gold in Rome; the Beatles made their debut in Germany; apartheid was ‘booming’ ...
Ron Lock has spent much of his life in Africa, including 13 years in Kenya and Tanzania (Tanganyika). He served with the mounted t...
Brigadier-General Dick Lord was born in Johannesburg where he grew up. He joined the Royal Navy as an air cadet in 1958, where he ...
Jaco Louw, hailed by the press as “arguably the fastest wing in world rugby”, played for the then Transvaal rugby team, making...
Bror Urne MacDonell was born in 1921 in Elizabethville, the Belgian Congo. For the first twenty years of his life he was known as ...
Fiona McIntosh is a photo journalist and the editor of Out There Adventure and Out There Travel. She is the a...
Keith A. Nelson was born in DeKalb, Illinois in 1951. He served in both the US Army Special Forces (Green Berets) and the Rhodes...
Bree O'Mara was born in Durban on a Thursday in July, just in time for lunch. She started out life in the theatre and performed fo...
Peter Petter-Bowyer was born in 1936 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. As a boy during World War II he’d watch the Royal Air Forc...
Hamish Pillay was born in 1978 in East London in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He studied at Rhodes University and has pursued...
John Plaster, USAR (ret.), served three 1-year tours in Southeast Asia with MACV-SOG. After retiring from the military, he combine...
Ron Selley was born in 1947 and grew up in Zululand. In the wilds of northern Natal, he started hunting at the age of eight and op...
Stu Taylor. Born in South Africa and raised in Southern Rhodesia to nomadic parents, Taylor’s early years were unsettled as he w...
Tony Trethowan was born in England in 1955. His parents immigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1958, where he grew up. He served in th...
Richard Wood, BA (Hons) (Rhodes), PhD (Edinburgh), FRHistS was born in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). He was educated at St George’s Colle...
Finally
The Last Blues Song (written by Helen Reddy) is an ode to Caryl Wyatt's marital mayhem. The lyrics protest...
“We stand in awe of the inner strength that you possessed in order to survive your harrowing ordeal.”
Marion Cross, Tuesday Rost...
