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Transformation

Franschhoek, January 2026 — A New Beginning

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January 18, 2026 Thank you for your concern and good wishes. Our flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town was smooth and uneventful. While driving into Franschhoek, we could see areas that had been severely burnt. Acres of scorched earth and blackened trees surrounded us. The smell of smoke still hung in the air. Although we…

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Phinda Private Game Reserve, January 2026 — Return

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January 11, 2026 We’re now in the Phinda Private Game Reserve. Our travel company, called “&Beyond”, purchased the land to return it to its original owners, and to provide a home for the wild life that once roamed freely here. Phinda is actually a Zulu word that means “return”. Over the past 20-plus years of “rewilding”, &Beyond has successfully reintroduced the animals that exist here today. Somehow, I too am being prompted to…

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South Africa, January 2026 — Rewilding

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January 6, 2026 Before returning to Africa, I had become familiar with the concept of “rewilding”. It refers to landscapes and the reintroduction of animals and other living things that were formerly driven-out or exterminated. But I wonder now what this important phenomenon for environmental conservation and the preservation of species in the natural world…

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