09th June – Windy Weather and Wild Dogs

The winds have been gusty all day long, and that did us no favours from a game viewing point of view as the animals sought shelter in the thick bush. My dreams of finding a cheetah in the quiet eastern sector proved just that; dreams! There were a number of impala, a herd of zebra and some kudu, but little else. I did manage to see a large herd of buffalo as they awoke form their nights slumber and started heading to the north in search of some water. A guide from a neighbouring lodge found the Sohebele female lion who is believed to have cubs, and she was making her way to the north western corner of the reserve, beyond which we believe she is hiding her cubs. While she was lost going into some thick bush, we later saw her tracks crossing off the property.

The quiet middle part of the drive ended when I headed back towards camp to follow up on Argyle Jnr leopard’s young female cub that Johannes had seen earlier on top of a termite mound. After seeing some zebra, we spotted the leopard still sitting on the mound. As she is not totally used to vehicles, I didn’t pull off road to get closer, but viewed her form about 20m from the road. After about five minutes she got up and wandered towards us and crossed the road about 7-8m ahead of us before disappearing in the bush. Heading back to camp we saw zebra, impala and a nice herd of giraffe on our airstrip.

Herald had a better morning, despite being unsuccessful in locating a rhino near Voël dam. He commented that he saw some nice general game, some elephant bulls and drove past a herd of elephants whilst on his way south to see two wild dogs! He arrived just in time, but unfortunately after a couple of minutes the two dogs bolted off after impala and were lost. Although this is typical, with a large pack of 10-15 dogs, one normally locates on one or two individuals and can continue with the sighting, but with only two dogs, this becomes extremely difficult! As a result, the dogs were not located again in the afternoon. Some good news though was that a large pack of wild dogs was also reported on the reserve to our north, so there is every chance they might come across to our property over the next few days.

The afternoon was also very quiet as the wind persisted through the day, with some splattering rain falling after breakfast. The giraffe wandered past camp during lunch. On drive, the leopard kill that was found by our guides doing bush work in the morning was gone, and there was no sign of the leopard. We also received a report of a rhino at Voël dam, but found nothing when we arrived. Herald and I left our trackers on the spoor and they soon found the Argyle male rhino sleeping in a Mopane thicket. He was very relaxed today, despite the wind, so provided a nice sighting for our guests. After that, I had very little luck, although I did tick off a jackal, a large bull elephant and a bushbaby. Herald had a bit more luck and saw genet, hyena, elephant, African wild cat and a hippo outside of the water.

We shall just have to see what the weather is like tomorrow, but hopefully it improves!

07th & 08th June – Mtenga-tenga Rhino Finds Love!

The last two days have been a bit chilly and windy here in the Timbavati, but the guests visiting Motswari have still been treated to some good game viewing. Sunday morning saw Johannes finding the large Argyle male leopard on Motswari wedge just North West of the camp; unfortunately he did move off the property to the west. Andrew was on his way to see this leopard when he bumped into a leopard of his own near our airstrip; Argyle Jnr’s 15-month old female cub. Although she is not as relaxed as our other leopards, she still provided a good sighting, and allowed the vehicle to follow her as she wandered about chasing birds! There was no luck in relocating that buffalo herd from last night, nor a rhino whose tracks were seen a few hundred meters from camp.

I went on drive in the afternoon, and the windy conditions weren’t overly conducive to good game viewing, but we still had a nice drive with some giraffe near camp, a nice herd of about 25-30 elephant feeding quite close to the vehicle. The youngsters were also entertaining playing with one another and attempting to be big and scary and chase the vehicle away! After that we saw some baboons, kudu and impala, as well as hippo at Vyboom dam. After drinks things were a bit quiet, although heading back o camp we came across three elephants drinking at Voël dam, another lone bull a bit further on, then some zebra on our airstrip and that herd of buffalo were once again just behind the camp at Trade Entrance dam. During dinner all the guests went to have a looka t three elephants drinking at the waterhole in front of the lodge.

Despite Monday being windy once again, our game viewing was pretty good. That buffalo herd did a good job avoiding us once more, but when two rhino’s were found down south, we decided to head over there. We did find two herds of zebra and kudu around, as well as some giraffe with a young calf. We heard that the rhinos were right on the boundary of our reserve, but took a chance anyway, and got lucky, as when we arrived, we found our relaxed male rhino, Mtenga-tenga, in the company of a lovely female! She was the most relaxed female I have seen in the Timbavati, and a rather large female at that! The two hung around for the duration of the sighting, the female just standing 10m away looking at us while Mtenga-tenga casually grazed a bit further away. It is good to see that this poor male has finally found a female, and it is no doubt the female that he was seen mating with a week-and-a-half ago. If all goes well, we might have a baby rhino running around in 16-months time!

We left the rhinos and headed a few kilometers north to see the Sohebele pride, all seven members that had been found near our Java camp. It was really great to hear that all of the pride were together in the heart of their old territory, but what was even better was that they had a kill – a young zebra! Although the meat was almost all gone, and all the lions were fat and sleepy when I arrived, it wasn’t long before they went to feed on the bones and scraps again. With full bellies, three of the pride, including the lactating female, managed to shove some more food into their guts!

In the afternoon, we found another nice herd of elephant with some young babies, but our main goal was to see a leopard, so when the southern stations fond Nthombi female leopard, we headed down south. The general game was pretty good; we saw a nice herd of giraffe with some zebra and impala, several herds of waterbuck, baboons, hippo and a lone male giraffe. We eventually arrived and joined Herald at the leopard sighting where Nthombi was perched in the fork of a marula tree. She remained there posing for the camera for about half an hour before we left and went to have a look at the Sohebele pride who were remarkably still feeding on what little was left of the zebra! It was really great to see and hear them growling and tussling over the few scraps before they all headed off to the trough below the Geiger’s cottage and we watched them having a drink from the opposite bank of the Machaton riverbed. We headed back home and managed to see a few more elephants on the way back, as well as two elephants drinking from the pool back at camp.

Another interesting bit of news was that Johannes found tracks for a lone male cheetah in the central parts of the reserve (drinking at Java dam), but unfortunately we had no luck in tracking him, but maybe we have some luck finding him over the next few days.

05th & 06th June – Big Cats – Lions, Leopards and Cheetah!

No, that is not a typo; our guides did get to see a cheetah on Saturday morning, the first sighting since August last year, but a bit more on that later!

Friday morning was a bit quiet, there was no activity around Mbali’s kill, and just the head and neck were left. Giyani did manage to see a few elephant and buffalo n drive. Friday afternoon was a bit better, once again elephant and buffalo were ticked off, and Andrew managed to locate the Argyle male leopard in some thick bush just to the west of Mbali’s impala kill. Giyani also got to see Nkateko female leopard down south wandering around near Machaton Cottage. On Friday night, while doing a drive on the neighbouring reserve, I did get to see the whole Sohebele pride together sleeping on the main Timbavati access road, and although the five sub-adults (and even the two adult females) were looking a bit thin, they appeared to be in a good enough condition, especially the skinny young male who I had presumed was dead before I went on leave. He is however looking quite good (at least compared to the last time I saw him over a month ago!), and he wasn’t limping when he was walking, so maybe he might just make it! Both female lions were showing signs of lactation, and I would assume both have had cubs, although only one of the females teats were showing clear signs of suckling.

Saturday morning produced a sighting that is never expected, and always creates a lot of excitement! The southern stations found a relaxed male cheetah in the south, and Andrew was lucky enough to be able to respond to this extremely rare animal. The male cheetah is presumed to have come in from the western Klaserie, but by all accounts was extremely relaxed with all the attention he was getting. Although cheetahs do occur in the area, the vegetation here in the Timbavati is not ideally suited to their needs, that being open grasslands to use their incredible speed to chase down small to medium sized antelope. Although cheetahs can hunt in the woodland areas quite effectively, the presence of lions, hyenas and even leopards sometimes puts enough pressure on them to drive them away. Sightings are thus rare and always treasured. The last sighting of a cheetah on a game drive was last August when we saw a mother and her fully grown son down south. Godfrey also told me that he had seen a very skittish female cheetah a few months back on Scholtz airstrip, one of the last places you would expect to find one due to the thick Mopane woodland in that part of the reserve!


Saturday morning also saw the three Mahlathini male lions being found on Karan’s airstrip, and they were followed for some time before settling to the west of Karan’s Big Dam. In the afternoon, I eventually managed to get out on a drive, and I found a herd of about 100-150 buffalo whilst en route to the lions. I managed to locate the three lions sleeping not far from where they had been left in the morning, and got to see first-hand the change in their behaviour! It was really pleasing to see what the other guides had been speaking about; these lions were eventually relaxing around the vehicles! It took a while, but they have realized that the land rovers do not harm them, and now that such a mind-shift has taken place, we can have some good sightings of them. Admittedly, they are still not as nonchalant with regard to the vehicles as our other lion prides, but they do not run away, and settle down almost immediately once a vehicle pulls into the sighting. We will still give them their deserved space, but I can only imagine that they will continue to get more and more relaxed around the vehicles.



The cheetah was unfortunately not relocated this afternoon, so I missed out again, but there is always a ‘next time’! The rest of the afternoon was a bit quiet, a some zebra, impala, waterbuck, kudu, hippo, civet, genet, bushbabies, a spotted eagle owl, and then a side-striped jackal on our airstrip. As I approached the camp, that herd of buffalo was arriving for a drink at Trade Entrance Dam. They cautiously approached the water, but soon ran off as a hyena came running in! Once they realized it was only a hyena, they returned to drink. At camp, the leap of leopards was seen again by the staff. Just after we departed for game drive, the alarm-calling vervet monkeys alerted the staff to the presence of a predator, and they soon spotted a leopard resting on a low branch just up the riverbed, 100m or so from the breakfast verandah. After sunset, the waiters saw a couple of leopards at the waterhole in front of the lodge – a great sign that this family is spending a good deal of time around the camp. There were also tracks for a rhino walking past the back of camp on Saturday night, and with the elephants again showing themselves during lunch and at night, we had a busy night around camp last night!

04th June – Mbali, Kuhanya and Argyle Male Leopards

I am still not on drive, it is relatively quiet at the camp, but the game seems to be pretty good. Over the last two days, there has been at least two buffalo herds on the property, and on Thursday afternoon there was a herd of about 100-150 on our airstrip, while in the morning, Giyani saw a bigger herd in the south.

Elephant sightings also appear to be quite good, with a good number of bull elephants and a couple of breeding herds about. There were five bull elephants hanging around the camp on Thursday evening. Unfortunately the rhinos have not been that co-operative, and although Johannes found two together this morning, they sounded to be rather nervous and eventually moved into some thick bush and were not relocated. The lions have not been overly active either, although they have been heard calling, the last sighting was of the three Mahlathini males on Wednesday morning, when they were followed from Argyle dam, past Sohebele dam, and were left going towards Karans camp trough. Giyani and Johannes commented on how relaxed they seemed, and that the lions walked within a couple of meter of the vehicle on numerous occasions during the sighting – and that is some really pleasing news!

The best sightings over the last couple of days have belonged to the leopards. On Wednesday morning, Giyani found a large female leopard that was semi-relaxed around the vehicle, and given some space, she was fine. I would assume that this was the Argyle Jnr female that had been around camp over the last few days. Wednesday morning also saw Mbali and Kuhanya being seen with a fresh impala kill that lasted them two days, although the most surprising thing was finding the large Argyle male leopard feeding on their kill on Thursday morning with the two female leopards (Kuhanya is his the daughter of Argyle male) not far off. While on bush work after breakfast, I did see Kuhanya near the impala kill, but no sign of the Argyle male. After doing our work and heading home, I did find Mbali sleeping in the middle of the road some distance from the kill, and that was a pleasant surprise which made my bush work more fun (actually had a good drive, saw kudu, waterbuck, impala, baboon, elephant, giraffe, vultures feeding on a dead giraffe, zebra and two different leopards!). There was another leopard drinking in front of the lodge on Wednesday evening just before the game drives returned to camp, and the same leopard was also seen walking past the staff village a bit later that night. The monkeys had been alarm calling near the camp in the morning, and we all suspected that there was a leopard that they could see, and this just proved it. I also managed to see one of Argyle Jnr’s young male cubs wandering around on Wednesday afternoon.

03rd June – Hello There!

It seems like ages since I last did this, and well, it has been! I have just returned to Motswari after three weeks away from the Timbavati; I spent my annual leave back home in Johannesburg, and was quite keen to return to the bush after a long break.

After a quick chat with some of the guides, it seems as though the game viewing has been pretty good, with a couple of highlights I would like to share with you all. The first sighting that I wish I had been around to see was that of the Argyle Jnr female leopard and her three cubs that spend have spent the last few days around the camp. It all started when Zandile (an Adult Educator who is here teaching the staff) was walking past the breakfast verandah one evening and saw something on the wall which at first glance she thought was one of the hyenas that frequent the camp, but it didn’t take her long to realise that this was no hyena, it was a leopard sitting on our breakfast verandah! She went and called Alphius in the boma and he came and confirmed this, then the guests put their dinner on hold and went and watched not one, but four leopards in front of the verandah! One was having a drink, one was below the pool, and then another was just below the breakfast verandah – what a treat to have these leopards in our camp! From all accounts they spent about half an hour in the riverbed below the main buildings of camp. There presence was not fleeting, and over the next three days, they were seen a coupe more times, some times coming to drink at sunset, other times walking around near the workshop, and as recently as yesterday morning, Giyani saw fresh tracks of this leap of leopards walking around our staff houses! It would be really great if this keeps up around the camp!

Besides these four leopards, Kuhanya and Mbali seem to be doing well, as do Rockfig and Nkateko, with reports of male leopard activity increasing too with the vacant territory of Mangadjane up for grabs. Godfrey saw the Argyle male leopard as far south as the northern side of Mbali property in our central area, an area that used to be patrolled by Mangadjane. Palence also found Java Dam female leopard no more than a few hundred meters south of where Godfrey was with Argyle male, and he was no doubt looking for her, perhaps she is coming into estrus. The best part of this drive was that these leopards were a mere bonus to what had been an amazing lion sighting. Godfrey had been following the five, yes, all FIVE Sohebele sub-adult lions! My fears that the missing young male was dead were once again unfounded, and from Godfrey’s account of the story, he is looking in good condition, and the five lions are doing well, and seemingly managing to hunt quite successfully – as Godfrey was to witness. Godfrey watched the five young lions approach a herd of impala in the descending darkness, and they split up and encircled the herd. Godfrey turned the lights off and just sat and waited in silence. Maybe 15-20 minutes passed without action, or indeed being able to see more than the odd pale shape moving through the darkness – then suddenly the sound of trampling hooves broke the silence as the impalas ran in all directions trying to get away from the one lion that had charged in, but little did they know that there were four other lions scattered around. An impala ran straight for the lion closest to Godfrey but managed to, at the last instant, jump and miss the lunging lion. As the sound of the hooves moved off, Godfrey thought it was over, but then he heard the unmistakable sound of death; one of the impalas had been caught. Godfrey followed the death call of the impala that sent all the other lions racing in that direction until they found one male busy killing the unfortunate antelope. The lions started feeding peacefully, but as they devoured their kill, and the meat became less and less, the fighting started, and things got interesting. The little female is too small to actively compete with her bigger cousins, so she just stood back as they fought and waited for the scraps to come flying off, grabbed them and ate in peace! When two elephant bulls came up to the kill and started trumpeting, Godfrey decided to leave, and it was minutes later that he found Argyle male leopard, and upon approaching the sighting, Palence found Java Dam female leopard!

Two days later the youngsters were found all the way down south at Entrance dam, and they had clearly been feeding well again. I also heard that the youngsters got split up shortly afterwards into three smaller groups, 3 + 1 + 1, after the Mahlathini males returned to the area. It also sounds as though the sub-adults managed to reunite with their two mothers who appear to have had their cubs already. I heard an unconfirmed report that one of the females has had two cubs on the neighbouring Klaserie reserve, but there have been no confirmed reports of this from our side – we will have to keep on checking around Voël dam to see if they pitch up there at any stage.

As far as the Mahlathini males are concerned, they still seem quite comfortable in the area, and were found on a buffalo kill near Karan’s Camp a few weeks back, and then over the last few days they have been feeding on a large giraffe that they managed to bring down near Illegal Crossing, in their favourite area on the banks of the Nhlarulumi riverbed.

Then the last bit of noteworthy news that I heard was that of two wild dogs that were seen on a number of occasions near our airstrip and around the camp. It is great to see these highly endangered animals again, especially in light of the fact that the big pack of 16 dogs that frequented the area over the summer have not been seen for some time. The two dogs are possibly two females that have broken away from their natal pack and are wandering around looking to meet up with a group of males to form a new pack. As only the one alpha female gets to mate in each pack, any other females that want to mate have to move away from their natal range and look to establish a new pack – the idea of females moving off instead of males is not very common in the animal world.

As for current sightings, Giyani found a large female leopard this morning not far from the camp, semi-relaxed and he could view her from maybe 15-20m away – I wonder if it is possibly not Argyle Jnr female? Mbali female leopard also killed an impala this morning, and when Giyani arrived, she had not even opened up the stomach. It sounds as though Kuhanya was also there, so I am sure that the two of them will be feeding on that for a couple of days. She killed it very close to Concrete Crossing on the banks of the Nhlarulumi, and with some luck she will take it up one of the big trees growing there rather than dragging it under thick cover. Johannes had also found a spot where the Sohebele females had killed and eaten an impala near Voël dam, but I am not sure if he had any luck tracking them.

And that is about it from me for the time being, I will keep you all updated with new sightings, and hopefully some more photos too – I just got myself a nice new 500mm lens which I am dying to try out, so hopefully the animals play along so I can do so soon!

12th May – Some Interesting ‘Bush Work’

My last morning before going on leave involved me staying in camp and doing working on my sightings reports in favour of going with some of the other guides to do some bush work. It was a choice I later regretted making!

The guys were busy working on our airstrip when they heard the Mahlathini male lions roaring nearby. Just on the other side of the Sohebele riverbed, the guys spotted the three lions at a distance, and not wanting to cause them to move off before the game drive vehicles arrived, stopped and waited. It was not long before the quiet sighting soon changed. One of the hyena cubs that frequent the camp suddenly burst out of a termite mound near the lions, and ran straight towards them! In a flash one of the male lions had sent the hyena cub flying with a mighty swish of his paw, and soon had the unfortunate youngster in his jaws! The yelping of the cub alerted its mother that came charging in, but it stopped dead when it saw the three lions and started giving a ‘rallying’ call to all the other hyenas in the area. The guys said that within three minutes there were almost a dozen hyenas coming from every direction, but it was too late for the cub – it was already dead. The one lion maintained his grip on the hyena while the two brothers ran around chasing the hyenas all over the show! It sounded like a harsh, but amazing sighting…yet I was sat in my room working on the computer!

Godfrey also managed a pretty nice sighting – he found a leap of leopards! Four leopards – Argyle Jnr and her three cubs! Unfortunately though, something spooked them and they ran off, although one youngster hung around for a bit. It appears that they had killed and just finished off a duiker – not a very substantial meal for a large group of leopards like that.

I do not know if they were relocated in the afternoon, but I doubt that they would have moved very far – and there is a good chance that they would be found again.

And that is it from me and the blog for a while, I will be back in the bush at the beginning of June, so until then, keep well!

11th May – A Sad, Sad Day in the Timbavati…R.I.P. Mangadjane

I normally relish the opportunity to share the news of our animals and our world with you, but this is one entry that I wish I didn’t have to post…and so it is, that with great sadness that I have to inform you all of the untimely, and extremely unfortunate death of our one of our most treasured leopard – the legendary Mangadjane.

Monday morning started off like any other day, but soon turned into one of the bluest Mondays I have ever had to face. One of the guides had found fresh tracks for Mangadjane, and decided to have a quick look. While tracking, the tracks were lost crossing hard and rocky terrain towards a drainage line. The guide checked the drainage line and found no tracks crossing it and though that the leopard must still be close by. He went back to where he had last seen the tracks and spotted an area of flattened grass about 25m ahead – a possible indicator to where an animal had been sleeping. The guide walked no more than 7m from the road when Mangadjane came charging in at him from 11m away! The guide shouted at the animal – which from past experience was normally sufficient to break off a charge. Today was different. The leopard kept coming. The guide fired a warning shot into the ground; surely that would get the leopard to stop and run in the opposite direct. It didn’t. At less than 2.5m, the guide was out of options – it was his life or the leopards - and in a making that split second decision, he took the final lethal shot which, fortunately for his sake, stopped the leopard…the guides life was saved.

Now it might be easy to point fingers and ask many questions about why a lethal shot was needed; but when one of the most experienced and qualified guides (15 years of guiding in the Timbavati) - who has walked into similar situations countless times before – feels that he has no option to protect his own life other than to take the life of an animal he loved so dearly, you know that is was necessary. This incident has served to remind us that the animals that we see here every single day, and the same animals that seem to pay absolutely no attention to us and our vehicles, are still 100 percent wild animals, and that there is no room for complacency, no matter how well we may think we know our animals.

The sad reality of the situation is that it was either the guides life or the leopards…had the guide not fired a shot, we might have been reporting on the loss of dear friend, as well the same possible outcome for Mangadjane, but that is not for me to speculate, we are just glad that the guide came away physically unhurt, but the emotional shock will not be easy to overcome.

Now for any of our past guests that have been privileged enough to see Mangadjane (or Batman, as many of you may remember him as!), you will know how easy it was for guides and guests to become so attached to him. His relaxed demeanor around the vehicles ensured up-close and personal encounters of one impressively sized male leopard. He went about his business as if we were not even there, I never once had him show any aggression towards the vehicle, even when he was munching on an impala a few meters above our heads! In fact, I think the impala’s might be the only ones happy to hear this news, as Mangadjane definitely did his part in keeping the impala population in check (my favourite was when he managed to kill three impalas in one go)! Of course all the guides across the Timbavati were deeply saddened to hear this, and I am sure that, like me, all the ‘rugged and tough rangers’ quietly shed a tear or two when no-one was looking. It is a strange thing; he was an animal, a wild animal, but upon hearing the news, it was like hearing of the passing of a friend. And after more than seven years of ruling the northern Timbavati, that is what Rupert aka Batman aka Mangadjane (in all his various spellings!) had become to the guides – a friend, and one that will be sorely missed…

While the sadness may reign down over Timbavati at the moment, we can not help but smile when we think of all the magical sightings we have had of him over the last few years. Magical tales of a great leopard, great not just by Timbavati standards, but Mangadjane would no doubt have been a star in any reserve in any country – he was just that sort of leopard. He was the ultimate leopard, from killing fully grown female kudu’s weighing more than twice as much as he did to stories of him killing fully grown hyenas and then hoisting them into trees to feed on them – then more tenderly making a meal of a group of catfish in a drying pool, and too taking them into the trees! He always had a go at the hyenas that pestered him when he was on his kills, as had many meetings with the Sohebele lion pride that shared his land. These ultimate enemies knew each other well and shared many encounters (some almost ending Mangadjane’s life even earlier) – my most memorable being when the pride of eight lions kept Mangadjane biding his time on the whimsical branches of a marula tree on an extremely warm autumns day…all day long! He had no shade, and little room to move, but he did have something the lions wanted – an impala kill. The lions were patient, but Mangadjane was even more so…daylight came and went, and Mangadjane was still sitting tight, not even attempting an escape – not even when an intruding male leopard came and joined him in the tree, despite all eight lions still sitting underneath them. In the morning all characters were gone, and Mangadjane – possibly stiff-legged – wasn’t seen in a tree for sometime after that!

My favourite attribute about Mangadjane was his patience – and it always amazed me to see him sitting and waiting at the entrance of a warthog burrow, sometimes for almost 48 hours at a time , just knowing that eventually the warthog would have to come out, and if it did, he was ready…well, most times anyway!!!

We could go on and on about our dearly departed friend (and if you have any great stories or memories of him, please feel free at leave a comment on the blog!), but we have to move on. He was a legend, he was one-of-a-kind, and he contributed towards making the Timbavati the special place it is. And although he is gone, he has left more than a legacy – he has populated the reserve with several offspring, the latest being Nkateko, and together with our other fantastic leopards, they will continue to provide the guests and guides with countless wonderful memories and photographic opportunities. Mangadjane has also left a big gap, and as is the way of the bush telegraph, ‘news’ will soon spread that there is a vacant territory about, and there will be new males moving in to try and stake a claim, the same way Mangadjane moved into the area all those years ago. Time will tell which leopard moves in to take over – it might be a complete outsider, it could be one of Mangadjane’s previous offspring like Rockfig Young Male, or maybe the Argyle male will continue to push further south – at this stage it is a bit soon to tell, but Mangadjane’s departure will certainly lead to some interesting developments in the world of the leopards of the Timbavati, until our new golden boy makes this his home…

So that is it, the story that has rocked our little worlds, but we have to look forward to what the future holds – and be sure that you will be able to read about any new developments here on the Motswari Blog.

My first ever photo of Mangadjane...

...and my last...RIP my friend