Today we have yet another busy day. It starts out with a quick stop at the Italian Sporting Club, one of the meeting places for Johannesburg’s […]

We have reached Johannesburg, the country’s and the continent’s economic hub. Known to South Africans as Jo’burg, its Zulu name  is more telling – eGoli, the […]

Xtractor’s final days are chock-full of wonderful  satisfactions. The day starts yet again at dawn, quite a chilly, damp early morning at that, but the fog […]

The sun is back this morning and it’s shining on the South African farming community’s most important event  by far – Nampo, a huge yearly fair […]

It’s mid May and South Africa is heading towards winter – we know. At the Kruger it didn’t feel like that, but here in Balfour we […]