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Jacqui Buckley
Arriving in South Africa at the tender age of just one year, the author has spent her entire life immersed in the unique culture of the country. From the age of three to seven, she was put into a c...view moreArriving in South Africa at the tender age of just one year, the author has spent her entire life immersed in the unique culture of the country. From the age of three to seven, she was put into a children’s home when her mother contracted tuberculosis and has fond memories of Izaak, the Zulu gardener who for many hours regaled her with tales of the Zulu kingdom and planted the seed that grew into a love for history. After several years of corporate bondage, she finally entered the tourism industry, and this is where she found her true calling. Once having gained a formal qualification from the South African Tourism Board, she started out nurturing young school groups and progressing to the more challenging category of wide-eyed foreign tourists. Shepherding tour groups through the verdant hills of first Kwazulu Natal and then throughout the Eastern and Western Cape, she learned the magic of taking a dusty subject matter and transforming it into an engaging and colorful narrative blended with her inimitable wit and passion. Upon retirement, she finally had the time to pen the tales, infusing it with her oft twisted and wayward thoughts.
She currently resides in Sedgefield, South Africa, home to the world’s only Slow Festival and one of the only towns known to be declared a formal tortoise sanctuary. She shares her home with her two dogs, Jorja and Tokolosh, as well as the usual scattering of half-finished oil canvases and partially written manuscripts. She gives thanks daily for her family and their unconditional support in the adventures she has embarked upon during her varied and interesting life. For leisure, she takes to the local trails every morning on her mountain bike armed with her camera to scout for new landscape material to feed the muse of her other passion, painting.view less