So the South African adventure finally comes to an end and we are back safe and sound. That was not always looking possible as I was caught up in a massive food poisoning outbreak. Snail pate was the probable cause of mine, but the load shedding programme which they have in place is more likely to be the culprit.
Two or three times a day the power is switched off and businesses and homes have to rely on generator power for anthing up to 4 hours at a time. There is now a widely held view that fridges are going on and off spasmodically and consequently some of the contents are being compromised.
The funding to fix the problem has gone missing, so the natives are getting restless and there could be a serious uprising against the government if the situation is no resolved.
Anyway, no great harm done, and a local doctor prescribed some
medication to sort me out. He was Dr Ventner and had a rugby picture on
his surgery wall. Apparently his grandfather toured Great Britain with
the Springboks in 1931. 
He was F.D Ventner, a three-quarter who scored against Glasgow District.
The finl drive of the safari allowed us to click in with the final big 5 animal, the African buffalo. we also saw black rhino and a male lion, so all in all a very successful sortie to the Southern Hemisphere
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