the eternal flâneur moves on

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Photographer unknown – from Facebook

Goodbye and go well, Balthazar Mthandeni Ziqubu… We who are still here in the stream of ever-meandering human folly will miss your impeccable refinement and the always humorous, albeit trenchant, observations that flowed freely in your company.

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Photo: Kirsty Cockerill

“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.”

— Martin Heidegger