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2In such terms, the phrase “staging post” (with “staging” as a present participle, qualifying “post”) might suggest that we have not yet reached a “destination” as such, even though we may have begun to move away from our histories based in servitude and slavery. This posits that while a transition has been initiated, we are not yet “free” of slavery. A discussion on “post-slavery” certainly raises the question: “are we yet post-slavery?” The statistics that speculatively suggest how many people in the 21st century still live under conditions of slavery are truly shocking; and such statistics increase proportionately for women and for children, the world’s most vulnerable constituencies.

3Another grammatical construction, in which “staging” is a verb, suggests a theatrical performance of the conceptual idea “post” or “after.” It asks us to imagine: can one perform a post-slavery? Does the condition of post-slavery call for performances of a particular kind? This paper, then, is dedicated to an exploration of stagecraft and what it might suggest about newly liberated selves, psyches, bodies, and languages.

4Season 4 at the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg (October 2018) sought to cross the traditional threshold between the conventions of the academic lecture and performance; and in these terms, too, it was a staging of a post-moment, as arts and the academy agitated one another.

18 Apr ‘The one who gathers knowledge’

For Moji Kitsi, the bush is the best teacher. We joined this inspirational wildlife education guide on one of his outings in the Waterberg.

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It’s a hot November morning when I meet Moji Kitsi at the gate of Welgevonden Game Reserve, about 24 km north- west of Vaalwater in Limpopo. He’s dressed in the colours of the bush: olive-green cargo shorts and a golf shirt that’s clearly seen a lot of sun. His short dreadlocks are rolled up under his cap. We shake hands, then I hop into the white and green minibus used by the Welgevonden Environmental Awareness Programme (WEAP). As co-ordinator of WEAP, Moji spends a lot of time on the road in this bus, carting schoolchildren back and forth between towns like Vaalwater and wildlife refuges like Welgevonden. Three youngsters from Vaalwater are already on the bus: Thembi Momene (22), Thabang Mkoe (18) and Mpho Motsomane (19). Moji has worked with them before and knows them well. He imparts knowledge about the bush as we go, in an easy, conversational tone. A solifuge (a sun spider) scurries across the road and we all get out to take a look before it disappears.

Moji segues smoothly into a lesson: “In nature, nothing functions by itself,” he says. “We have three types of symbiotic relationships – do you remember them? Mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism. Mutualism is like when you buy bread, your friend buys chips, and then you eat together. Commensalism is when you buy bread and your friend buys nothing – but that’s okay because she doesn’t eat with you anyway. And parasitism is when you buy bread and your friend buys nothing – but she eats all the bread!” He laughs and then moves onto explaining how lichen is a composite organism in which algae and cyanobacteria share a mutualistic relationship. “Lichen only grows where the air is pristine,” says. “You kids always want to go to Pretoria or Joburg but you won’

Nicola Glennie (1990)

Nicola left Rhodes in 1992, taught in Zimbabwe for five years, then went to the UK. There she worked for a tour operator and travelled… she then responded to Africa’s call and returned to SA in 2004 where she has been pursuing her passion for the bushveld.

Submitted November 2009

Alasdair Gordon-Finlayson (1990)

Graduated 1994 BA(Hons) in Psychology. Is now a Psychology Lecturer at the University of Northampton, with interests in social and cultural psychology, qualitative research methods, the psychology of religion and transpersonal psychology.  An ordained monk in the White Plum Asanga, a lineage in the Soto Zen school of Buddhism.  Father, husband, cyclist, tech enthusiast.  http://about.me/alasdairgf

 Submitted: April 2012

Victoria (Richards) Hickson (1990)

Living in London (again!) and married to a geography teacher and working at Unilever as head of internal communications and community programme for the UK & Ireland. Plan to settle in SA before too long, hopefully.

Submitted: September 2009

Peter John Sabbagha (1990)

On his way to Russia from March 27 to April 24, to showcase Zebra, a collaboration of South African and Russian dancers and then heading to Mexico to showcase his all-female piece Back, Peter is a well known South African Choreographer. He has received numerous awards for his contribution to the arts, including the 2005 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Dance and the 2006 FNB Dance Umbrella (Gauteng MEC for Arts and Culture) award for Best Choreography for his work, Still Here.
Source: Springs Advertiser, Wednesday, 25 March 2009, p.15

Graduated in 1998 and worked in the UK for 10 years. Married with 2 boys and is now living in Cape Town.

Submitted:  January 2010

Anthea (Smallberg) Abraham (1991)

Since completing her degree in Journalism, Anthea has worked in radio, television, government, consulting and the corporate sector. She has held of the position of Ne