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I also learned that my star sign made me a Leo, though I was born in
the Chinese Year Of The Snake in what's probably the most famous
hospital in Africa, Groote Schuur. It was catapulted to the world's
front pages in the mid-60s as the site of the world's first
heart-transplant operation. The hospital itself lies on the slopes of
Devil's Peak, one of the three biggest pieces of rock which loom over
the city and which is just visible to the left of the biggest - Table
Mountain. Devil's Peak is also the place where I watched three South
African Air force training jets crash in 1970, a few hundred metres above
the freeway bend beside which the hospital stands.
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| BRINGING UP BABY. My Dad, Clyde, was finishing off his architectural
degrees at Cape Town University (see his pic on the right) and then began working
as an architect in the late 60s,
while my Mom, Liz, was doing - erm - motherly things, like keeping
my fingers out of electrical power outlets and stuff. They met while she
was a student at the Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town. |
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| CUTE? I spent my first
few years learning how not to trip over furniture in the Cape Town
suburbs of Oranjezicht (a really old area on the slopes of Table
Mountain - see info
about it) and then in the leafy southern suburb of Pinelands, where I
started school at The Blue School a.k.a Pinelands Primary. |
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| JO'BURG. In the early 1970s, my Dad decided to move with his wife and
three sons (me, Zane and Shelley) from 'the Mother City', Cape
Town, to South Africa's biggest city, Johannesburg.
He got hold of a big place in the smallholding belt of Honeydew, set up
his own architectural practice and had two more sons, Ryan and Darrell.
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