The weekend before South Africa’s most recent election, being touted as the most important since Mandela’s 1994 rise to power, Acornhoek’s streets were bustling and the APC – one of more than sixteen political parties – held their final rally.
Mati. [water]
Creek-kaw, Creek-kaw, Creek-kaw. The sound of a rusty blue water pump in a small farm-worker village can be heard for hours each morning.
The Old Selati Line [freestyle: railroad tracks]
Thirty minutes south of Hoedspruit’s main village centre and just a handful of kilometers from the farm, the old Selati railway line runs parallel to a border drawn on political maps in 1962.
The State of Darkness… [hope]
Hope. Dreams. And Reality. A world away, wishing for light, sitting in darkness.
