Getting behind the wheel on the roads of South Africa is a good way to recalibrate and see the positive qualities of our democracy.
Ferial Haffajee is a convert to the election road trip machine. The Daily Maverick’s Ferial Haffajee with the Ford Everest Wildtrak in the Free State.
We turned back, heading home through the pretty tourist and fishing town of Dullstroom, where a public-private partnership has returned the pothole parade to a measure of use-ability. The partnership with Ford South Africa, which has enabled better and wider election coverage, with the loan of off-road machines taking us to the nooks and crannies of South Africa, has been a true gift. I know very little about cars but have fallen for
Getting out and about has returned the essential dimension of balance or you can get acerbic about the ongoing abuses foisted on us citizens. A lot in our country is well-maintained, like the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, where the autumn hues of russet, orange and gold, the peaks and loops proved a splendour I hadn’t fully experienced in a car.
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