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Beyond “Zoochauvinism”

My fondest memories of growing up on the University of Fort Hare campus with a father who lectured botany – the late Professor Oswald Makunga – and a mother who was renowned in our little town of Alice for her spectacular garden, are linked to having the freedom to play and just be outside. My world as a five-year-old

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