Ah, Africa!

Posted September 25, 2008 by Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator & Director of Outreach

Pam Rathke, tour leader extraordinaire, is standing in the midst of a famous grouping of giant statues at the Brenthurst estate, owned by the Oppenheimer family, of DeBeer and Anglo-American corporation fame.  

I worried — why leave North America at the height of late summer, with the veggies overflowing in the garden, the leaves turning…the answer is Africa in springtime. What a glorious time to be here and get a second spring in the same year. Temperatures in Johannesburg and Pretoria were perfect, the days sunny, and flowers overflowing.
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