James Leith

Going walkabout

Court, non-residents were only allowed access to the four ‘public’ beaches as the guest of a resident.

Court, non-residents were only allowed access to the four ‘public’ beaches as the guest of a resident.

Ask any non-African what ‘safari’ means and they will almost certainly say that it has something to do with looking at wildlife, probably through the windows of a Land Rover. It doesn’t. Safari is a Swahili word meaning ‘a journey’, which in turn derives from the Farsi safara, meaning ‘travel’.

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