As Getaway and ISUZU’s Ikhaya Lekhaya marketing campaign attracts to an in depth, we have a look again on the journeys we made.
Over the previous two months, we’ve been sharing tales, movies and snippets from three unimaginable journeys that we took with three very daring South Africans. Every journey was wildly totally different, as had been the folks we travelled with, however there was one factor that tied every thing collectively: dwelling.
For Getaway and ISUZU’s Ikhaya Lekhaya marketing campaign we requested three artistic South Africans – musical director Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, investigative journalist Anneliese Burgess and slapstick comedian Noko Moswete – to take us again to the place the place they grew up, the place they as soon as known as, and maybe nonetheless is, dwelling.
What a journey it’s been! From Cape City to Villiersdorp, East London to Indwe, and Pretoria to Tibani – and again – we drove ISUZU D-MAXs alongside again roads and highways, dust trails, farm tracks and rocky river beds to make our strategy to the place the place our stars grew up. Alongside the best way there was quite a lot of laughter (and occasional), turning heads (the D-MAXs are putting), music, stunning moments and deep conversations about what “dwelling” actually means. And right here, one other frequent denominator: dwelling – it’s sophisticated.
“The phrase ‘dwelling’ positively brings up quite a lot of feelings,” Charl-Johan Lingenfelder advised us after we travelled to Villiersdorp, the place he lived as a baby. “I feel that goes for everyone – as a result of the phrase ‘dwelling’ means the place you’re from, and the place you belong. I grew up in small, sheltered Villiersdorp throughout the Seventies and Eighties and it was implausible – however on the identical time, it was terrible. How do you make sense of that? I’ve spent my entire life attempting to determine that out. How can one thing that was so wonderful and so great even have been so damaging on the identical time?”
With Anneliese Burgess, we drove to her household farm close to Indwe within the Japanese Cape. “I do know that this city is not my dwelling – however after all, there’s a sense of belonging,” she stated. “My roots are right here, and I can’t escape that – the happiness, the ache, the every thing. We’re such advanced tapestries and our roots contribute to this; the colors are all messy and typically the ink flows mistaken and it unravels in locations. However nonetheless it’s a tapestry – and it’s who you’re.”
Comic Noko Moswete was contemplative after we visited her household dwelling in Tibani, in Limpopo. “It’s such a privilege to return again right here, to the place I’ve at all times known as dwelling,” Noko admitted. “Not many individuals are ready to try this, and so many don’t have these deep roots; they haven’t any group. I take into account it a privilege to have folks past the yard of my mother and father who love me, and I actually respect it.”
Thanks for taking these journeys with us. In case you’ve missed any of the movies within the collection, you’ll be able to discover them right here.