MEET THE PEOPLE MAKING THE JOURNEY FOR SUMMER 2018
WILL BENDIX
(page 34) is a
multiple award
winning editor
and travel writer.
After ten years at
the helm of SA’s longest running sports
title, Zigzag, he has gone freelance,
which means he gets to work at home in
his undies. He somehow still manages
to squeeze free surf trips to tropical
destinations from his former employer. ELISHA
DIBAKOANE
(page 58) is a
photographer,
travel influencer
and writer. He’s
passionate about South Africa and the
gems it has to offer and showcases these
on his Instagram account – voted one
of the top nine in South Africa last year.
Folllow him on @dudefromsa. KATHRYN FOURIE
(page 22) lives in
the small town
of Howick in the
KwaZulu-Natal
Midlands. A
researcher and adventure tourism project
manager, Kath writes for pleasure and
spends as much time outdoors as possible
– running, hiking or mountain biking.
MERUSCHKA
GOVENDER (page
50) discovered
South Africa
through countless
road trips with her
family. Her love of travel drove her out of a
career in banking into the tourism sector,
before delving into the world of blogging
and social media. She shares her love of
African travel on her blog www.mzansigirl.
com and her heavily followed Twitter and
Instagram accounts, both @Mzansigirl. ERNS
GRUNDLING
(page 60) is an
award-winning
journalist and
author. His first
book, Elders, published in 2017, tells
the story of his first Camino pilgrimage
and was a best-seller. In September
2017 Erns returned to the Camino with a
camera crew to shoot Elders: Die Camino,
a 13-episode documentary series for
kykNET inspired by the book. EVAN
HAUSSMANN
(page 20) is an
award-winning
copywriter,
travel writer,
photographer and budding filmmaker. In
his career he’s searched for lost Amazon
tribes, sailed a leaky dhow through the
Querimbas, dogsledded across the
Arctic circle and hitched a Harley ride
around Australia.
RICHARD
HOLMES (page
16) is a freelance
writer based in
Cape Town. When
he’s not dreaming
up his next trip abroad he spends his
days eating and drinking his way around
Cape Town, the culinary capital of Africa.
On his wish list for 2018 is a rail and food
safari to the beaches and misty hills of
Sri Lanka. NATASHA
JOHNSON (page
32) is a freelance
graphic designer,
illustrator, travel
blogger and
collector of novelty hobbies. She recently
returned from a trip where she drove the
two islands of New Zealand, cultivating a
gentle and obnoxious Kiwi twang, eating
her weight in Fijian curry and spending
two nights in a haunted jail cell (true story). DAWN
JORGENSEN
(page 26) is a
conscious traveller
with a deep love
for Africa, its
people and the environment. She shares
stories from around the globe on her
award-winning blog, The Incidental Tourist.
These range from tales of island hopping
off Madagascar to turtle rescue in Kenya
and tuk-tuk driving in Thailand.
AMI KAPILEVICH
(page 46) once flew
from Cape Town
to Johannesburg
to Zurich to
Singapore to
Bangkok to Bali – a grand total of 25
hours in the air – with a girlfriend who was
a nervous flier. They got married anyway
and now live in Cape Town with their two
sons. Ami has written extensively about
his travels at home and abroad. FIONA MCINTOSH
(page 30) jumps at
any opportunity to
get off the beaten
track. Recent
travels have seen
the adventurer run 44 miles along the
Normandy beaches to commemorate
D-Day, trek through the biggest cave
in the world and cycle the Danube,
source to sea. TO MOLEFE (page
24) is a freelancer
writer and the
managing editor of
Collective Media,
a cooperative
that runs a newsroom providing content
to publications and organisations. He is
a former contributing writer to the New
York Times and City Press. TO lives in
Johannesburg with his dog, Marcello.
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