South Africa 1979: A hitch hiker’s impressions of the people and places of South Africa, Swaziland {Eswatini), South West Africa (Namibia) & Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).

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The unique tale of a 10 week, 7,560 mile hitch hiker’s tour of South Africa, Swaziland {Eswatini), South West Africa (Namibia) & Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
This book shares many of the surreal encounters on the cusp of immense political and cultural transition. From being likened to “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” in the Namib; to sleeping in a sheep truck, eaten by bed bugs, helping out a driver after he hit a donkey at 75mph, to a cowboy style standoff with soldiers in the desert at midnight. To being handed a bag of hand grenades and pistol with the instructions that if any trouble kicked off, I had to get out of the vehicle fast, throw myself in the ditch, or bush, by the roadside, keep very low and shoot anything that moved, except him, as well as throw the grenades at “them”. To enjoying the immense hospitality, kindness and generosity of many. To having some of the best nights out ever at the PiG in Jo’burg, The London Town Pub in Durban, the Pig and Whistle in Cape Town, the Kalahari Sands Casino in Windhoek and the Victoria falls Hotel as well as the YMCAs. To having engaging discussions with members of many racial groups that make up what is now known as the Rainbow Nation, or back then, as one renowned and isolated for its Apartheid policies.