GARAMBA!
“Caramba,” my late father-in-law would often exclaim to express amazement.
I conveniently misheard it, and enjoyed it, as being Garamba. A reminder of the most remote place I have ever travelled to, not to mention the roughness of the experience.
For that reason it was worth exclaiming “Garamba” myself when I read about 16 southern white rhino, some from KwaZulu-Natal, being relocated all the way to the Garamba National Park on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) side of that country’s border with South Sudan.
How did they get there? News reports said “the rhinos were transported from South Africa to Barrick’s Kibali Mine airstrip in north-eastern DRC and
