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Tag Archives: Johannesburg
Bird mystery solved.
Mysteries in blurred photographs do sometimes get solved. Last week I posted a picture of a strange bird sitting on the wall of my garden. It didn’t appear in any local bird book and when I approached a couple of … Continue reading
Posted in johannesburg, Kensington, science
Tagged bird watching, birdwatching, Johannesburg, mystery bird species
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Big fat Joburg
Vanity plates, cars the size of tugboats and egos bigger than orbiting planets. That is Joburg baby but then the men and women of this mining town have always had an inflated sense of importance, as writer Herman Charles Bosman … Continue reading
When the census man returns. Part two, the mystery.
Festus’s eyes had followed me for days. They stared at me as I walked up the street, and when I left the front gate. His eyes were on a poster, placed on a street lamp directly outside my house. … Continue reading