Joined in in 2007, I was introduced to what came naturally to my family... being hospitable. For so many people having a stranger in your home was terrifying and therefore impossible. But I set about Couchsurfing and explored California , San Francisco, Marin County, Mendocino, to way up North. When arriving home in Cape Town, I hosted many people of all ages and all nationalities.

MUSIC Boubacor Traore. Ani DiFranco. Derek Gripper. Ben Harper. MOVIES Absolute Beginners. V is for Vengeance. BOOKS Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda. Iron John, man and masculinity, by Robert Bly. David's Story, by Zoë Wicome. The Maine Woods, by Henry David Thoreau. The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World, by Anthony Daniels. My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. a Biography by Coretta Scott King.