Cinderella

The only Cinderella I have ever met worked in a boxing club.

Elon Musk

Well you can say what you want about white `South African. However seems to be that for a very small segment of South African society they do seems to produce a startling amount of innovators. The latest of which is Elon Musk, nobody even knew who he was until and few years ago and it's only in the last year or two that anybody in Pretoria had cottoned on to his heritage. Now they are all over like flies on shit. What seems to be the most incredibly part of the the Elon Musk's story is here is a guy with a vision for world change. Climate futures, big rockets, electric cars and well David Bowie. Who grew up under apartheid in one of the most conservative communities, possibly in the world. No wonder he got out fast. 

Lost Cultures

People from the north physically connect with the ancient cycles of the seasons and the meaning of each passing Moon and Earth cycles, even the equinoxes hold meaning. Here in the South as a northern human it's easy to get in touch with Earth energy, feel the passing of the seasons and the power that each one brings. We do not know the words and rituals and the season work round in the opposite way. Christmas is in June and and Summer Solstice is in December and it's obvious that the intentions of those European festivals are out of sync with the seasons. What we are trying to find is the flip side. Are there the same rituals here as there are in Europe, playing out differently or are they totally different festivals with very different means that relate to Southern African landscape, mythologies.  Are there any openly celebrated Southern African festivals? It's sad to think that in less than a couple of hundred years ancient cultures and traditions can be all but obliterated. Even now ancient African wisdom is discarded as irrelevant. Sangomas are often considered to be charlatans, taking advantage of poorly educated communities.