Letters from Africa January 2025– ‘Refurbs’, sloots, dongas and crocodiles!

John Cockayne describes how inland South Africa virtually empties out through December, as South Africans make their way ‘home’ for the year-end vacations, or to the sea!  Everything is packed, including the golf courses, which take a veritable ‘pounding’ between the beginning of December, and the end of the first week in January.