Safari Nation by Jacob S. T. Dlamini

Author:Jacob S. T. Dlamini [Dlamini, Jacob S. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Historical Geography, Africa, General, Social Science, Discrimination
ISBN: 9780821440889
Google: g-_eDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2020-04-22T00:37:30+00:00

FIGURE 5.20. The February family outside their cottage in the Lower Sabie Rest Camp, ca. 1974. Source: Edmund February’s family archive. Image used with permission

Twenty years after this experience, February, who became a professor at the University of Cape Town, was back in the KNP running a research project on savannah ecology funded by the U.S.-based Mellon Foundation. The project produced a number of master’s students and a PhD graduate (Corli Wigley-Coetsee) who became head of ecology in the KNP. It would be a typical South African move to end this chapter here, showing how black South Africans triumphed over adversity. But that would be too easy. It would tempt the reader to forget the humiliations and struggles (not necessarily nationalist in orientation or character) of those who fought for a place in the sun. As February said:

Through the 70s when I first started doing things on my own, it was really, really hard. It wasn’t easy. But we didn’t think about it. We didn’t think about the difficulties of doing it. We didn’t think that we weren’t allowed to go into campsites, we weren’t allowed into certain places. We worked around it. So what does it tell you? It’s like people always find a way. If you are interested in something, you will manage to do.107

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