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Ok I've been here almost two weeks now and the one thing that kills me about this place is how hot it is! I have never been this hot in my entire life. The place is so hot that there is NO cold water, when you open the cold water tap you get lukewarm water! If you want cold water, use the fridge. The heat is constant and intense, the sun just shines down without any mercy. When I initially came here I could not understand why everyone was walking around carrying umbrellas in clear weather, I'm now officially an umbrella carrier, there is no way you can walk around here without one. Here you go into store not to buy but to enjoy the aircon. It is so hot that people don't only walk around with umbrella but with face cloths as well. Yes ladies face cloths cause using a tissue is child's play and wearing make-up is just a waste of good make-up. On top of that there is the wildlife..... yes there are malaria carrying mosquitos here and sleeping with a mosquito net is a ...

In my line of work I do a lot of travelling. This time my travels have brought me to a mythical and mysterious place that is famous in Xhosa folklore called Umhlabuyalingana. Mhlabuyalingana, the place, is in northern KwaZulu-Natal bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. Mhlabuyalingana, the myth, is famous as the one place where you can find a solution for any problem, where the best traditional healers and strongest muthi are found. When someone threatens you with going to Mhlabuyalingana to deal with you, the threat is not taken lightly. I was so excited when I discovered that the small village I was coming to, was located in this area. In honesty I never thought it was real even though there were stories about it. I just assumed it to be one of those places that old people talk about in a symbolic manner. I did not realise that I was at Mhlabuyalingana until I saw the "welcome to Mhlabuyalingana" sign. So there I was going out of my head with excitement because I was act...

My natural journey continues and it has brought me back home, in my own backyard! The reason for titling this blog roller coaster is because I feel like I have had some extremely euphoric moments with my journey and at the same time with the education comes the realization of the abuse that I have been subjecting my body to. I am thankful that it is still standing and frankly looks really good despite my past treatment. I'm not saying that this transition is easy, believe you me, it is not! But I have committed myself and will stick to it, baby steps. Well, the discovery that I have made in my own backyard is that of aloe vera of "ikhala" in Xhosa, my mother tongue. This is a plant native to our country and especially in rural eastern cape, it and the cactus dominate the landscape. Well, I have been recently making trips to my aunt's house where she has some aloe growing wildly in her yard. I have gotten myself and my family to use this wonderful product. My...

Okay people, I just have to tell you about this amazing all natural product. I have been using it for a year now and I'm telling you it is permanently on my shopping list.  I suffer from severe period pains and I read somewhere that cranberry juice helps. I was thinking the cranberry juice that you get from the store that's sweet and so on. Now imagine my surprise when I came across it on the shelf. When I looked at the label it said "concentrate" so I thought of the juice concentrate we buy. I though, "uh great, I'll substitute and have this instead of juice". Boy was I wrong! Upon mixing it as per instructions, it taste bland and downright awful! My immediate thought was why does everything that is good for you taste awful and everything bad taste so good! Anyway I got over my initial shock at the taste and drank it anyway. Immediately I could tell it was working, within 24 hours my period pains subsided. And after a couple of months I notic...

There is a reason why green is one of the prevalent colours in African flags along with red and yellow (Pan Africanist Colours). Green stands for the richness and fertility of the African soil which is not only rich in nutrients and mineral but also in precious metals and stones. I have been trying to locate the statistics regarding the plant species found in Africa and so far I only have the figure for South Africa which is 10%.  This is mind blowing if you take into account the size of Africa, South Africa is only a tiny part of the continent and one that has been highly developed. For such a small part to hold so much, one can only imagine what the figures will be if we took into account the rest of Africa. In case you are wondering my babbling is leading to something, that as Africans we really need to look at our own backyard for alternative natural solutions to our modern ailments. Let's not look down on our remedies just because they are not packaged in an easy to swall...