Businessman, Artist, and Bateleurs pilot
Gauteng

Back in '58 when I was 7 years old I got a part time job, carrying a Mazoe bottle of cold tea wrapped in damp newspaper behind Dad, who was lugging a geiger counter around the Rimiti Kop bush in Rhodesia prospecting for uranium. When not carrying the tea I packmuled the Roberts birdbook and sundries for Mother.

We wandered in a wonderworld of wildlife that seemed limitless. Several trillion mopani flies and a number of years later I discovered that I had unwittingly developed a deep relationship with the bushworld that has endured until the present. The relationship may have remained strong but the enviroment has withered and shrunken to a shadow of what it was in those early halcyon years.

Flying a microlight today on missions for The Bateleurs is a way of contributing to the perpetuation of this fragile natural world that has given me so much pleasure and joy in the course of my life. In my spare time I paint wildlife in pastels, birdwatch and research the pre-caucasian settlements of Southern Africa.