by 2summers | Jan 11, 2021 | COVID-19, Johannesburg
It’s Monday, January 11th, 2021. It’s dark and rainy in Joburg and the holidays are officially over. South Africa is suffering through a second wave of covid-19 — worse than the first wave, as many experts predicted, and likely to worsen further as...
by 2summers | Dec 11, 2020 | COVID-19, Johannesburg
This week — the second week of December — is the busiest week of the year on the South African social calendar. It’s normally the week when people in Joburg wrap up everything at work or school, celebrate at year-end parties and braais (barbecues),...
by 2summers | Sep 29, 2020 | COVID-19, Uncategorized
It’s late September, summer in Joburg, and I’m suffering from a case of lockdown nostalgia. Remember that time I published a blog post every day for 100 days, and I had nothing to post except flowers and cats but you all enjoyed it anyway? (Or maybe you...
by 2summers | Aug 13, 2020 | COVID-19, Johannesburg, Melville and Surrounds
This is a quick post to announce the Melville Food Program, which I’ve blogged about many times during lockdown (see here and here and here), did its last large-scale food parcel distribution at Heritage Baptist Church today. This amazing group of volunteers,...
by 2summers | Aug 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Johannesburg, Melville and Surrounds, Parks/Nature Reserves
When the pandemic first hit and South Africa locked down, the closure of Emmarentia Dam and the Johannesburg Botanical Gardens (two parks that are essentially one — I will refer to the whole thing as “Emmarentia” going forward) was one of my greatest...