OUT & ABOUT in Gordon’s Bay
KHOELIFE
f all the hats she’s worn – academic, activist, Gender Equality Commissioner and climate-change consultant – Yvette Abrahams is happiest with her current role as soap maker. “Once I used to study the economics and ethnography of indigenous plants, now I get to grow them.” Abundant fennel, aloes, cannabis, pelargonium, wild garlic, African sage, and almond, waxberry and olive trees all flourish in her garden. Of Khoekhoe descent and an evangelical proponent of planet protection, she uses only solar power, an old Queen Anne stove,
