HAPPYSADLAND

THE BRAND NEW BOOK BY OBIE OBERHOLZER

SOUTHERN AFRICAN STORIES

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OBIE OBERHOLZER

Free spirit. 

Vagabond.

Storyteller.

Self-proclaimed visual thug.

A book about the happiness and sadness of southern Africa.

A collection of situations, incidents, thoughts, and self-humour.

The ridiculous, the whimsical, the serious and the sad.

Obie Oberholzer writes like he photographs; undaunted with rough edges, with sadness and gladness but most of all, with hope.

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THE HAND OF GOD

The rattle of my Isuzu bakkie, the clatter of camping stuff, the staccato-tongued swear words between patches of gravel-road corrugations, a sweaty wipe of a travelled face, and fine layers of dust on everything, ears-eyes-nostrils. Blessed are the wayfaring travellers who seek the far-flung tracks of our land.

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TASSIES 

My eyes are stinging from the heat and dust of the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo province), and the high screeching of cycad beetles pierces my ears. I am dirty and thirsty and itchy and hungry and pictorially disillusioned by this blêddie bleached African landscape that hazily coats my senses. 

THE STOP SIGN

There is a stop sign that I have been watching for almost 50 years now. It is situated within the Tsitsikamma National Park and is surrounded by many square kilometres of Knysna-Amatole montane forests. The stop street is at the end of Saint George’s ...

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