by Pamela Whitby | Sep 1, 2019 | Memoir
This is difficult. Exactly a month after I last saw my beloved Margaret Ncgobo, she is dead. I had visited her, as I always do when I am in South Africa, before we headed off to Kwa-Zulu Natal’s North Coast for the last week of our holiday. We were, in the...
by Pamela Whitby | May 4, 2018 | Stories
How did you end up in the cul-de-sac that is business journalism? It was a question put to me at a London lunch party with a bunch of film buffs back in 2001, by a successful somebody who should have known better. I remember feeling like I’d been slapped in the face....
by Pamela Whitby | Feb 27, 2018 | Stories
Our guide, who introduced himself as Bee, was waiting in the lobby of our hotel at Coffee Bay on the wild Wild Coast of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. It was going to be a scorcher of a day, but we’d decided, anyway, to do the walk to Hole in the Wall. After Table...
by Pamela Whitby | Oct 6, 2017 | Stories
The week started with a bang. On Monday, the EyeforTravel WhatsApp group started pinging madly. Mostly I annoy people by ignoring WhatsApp, but this activity seemed unusual. It was, I soon realised. The news of the crazy, incomprehensible, senseless shooting in Las...
by Pamela Whitby | Jul 6, 2017 | Stories
‘Matatiele’: When I entered this Basotho word, which roughly translated means ‘the ducks have flown’, into Google last week, I was curious. How would, or even could, Google portray this place of beloved and vividly remembered childhood holidays? Top of search was...
