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EJ Benting
For more than forty years EJ Benting has travelled extensively across Africa and has worked with many different people from diverse nations and tribes.
Readers will be introduced ...view moreFor more than forty years EJ Benting has travelled extensively across Africa and has worked with many different people from diverse nations and tribes.
Readers will be introduced to the first of a series of stories that originate from across Sub-Saharan Africa. Many of the characters are based on real people whose stories were shared during job interviews or around many camp fires in the African veld. The author's love of the unspoiled vast open spaces on the African continent is matched only by his love of Cape Town where he and his ancestors were born and raised.
One of his most powerful eye-opening experiences as a teenager was on a trip to the desolate but beautiful Bushmanland. Here he witnessed what a continuous drought could do to human beings. Zero rain and 99% unemployment create the most unimaginable poverty. Yet, EJ experienced a level of amazing generosity amongst the families who had the least to give. Years later, he would understand that you only survived if you enabled others to survive. In our modern world of consumption, riches are the measure of civilized societies. The Bushmanland taught EJ how authentically civilized poor societies can be. His wife, Karin, is still trying after 35 years of marriage to get him to attain all her high values and standards but as we say in Africa …. “Aluta Continua.”
Benting has experienced many of life's lessons, but the most powerful in his sixty-something years, is the one about 'casting one's bread upon the water.' He's so very proud to see that his two sons had already started to practice this at a young age.view less