A bird of prey hangs suspended over the vlei and the sing-song of cicadas permeates the heat. My cellphone is clammy, pressed against my ear. On the other end, Glenda Kemp laughs joyfully. Butterflies flit in my stomach – I mean, Glenda Kemp, the apartheid-era python stripper! Her name is on a 30 Seconds card.
Now aged 74, she's busy relaying a memory from 1979 when she was travelling to London with her python aboard an SAA flight. At Heathrow, the snake upside down!” That day she was picked up in a limousine.
