Attie Heunis's Journey

The ramblings of a Caucasian African American

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Originally from South Africa’s magnificent Eastern Cape, my family and I now reside in Pennsylvania in the United States. To earn my keep I’m an executive for a multinational company in the Healthcare sector. I’m also a serious amateur photographer. Pro-environmental and conservation views.

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  • Boesmansriviermond in pictures

    I think this clarifies our decision to return to South-Africa. Daar is min dinge wat so mooi is soos ‘n mooi dag in Boesmansriviermond. Dit is een van die verskeie redes hoekom ons besluit het terug te keer na Boesmans om The Red Apple oop te maak. Hier is nog Boesmansriviermond fotos.

  • Elke Heunis is one week old!

    Elke was a week old yesterday. It is unreal how time has flown since she was born on the 27th of September. Her birth was an emotional roller coaster to say the least. I tend to get very focussed and quite grim during times of stress, so it was only a day or so afterwards…

  • Steve Irwin gets killed by a stingray

    I am saddened but not shocked to have found out that Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray this weekend. Read more about Steve Irwin’s death. My big gripe with Steve’s view of animals was that he saw them as many people from the East see them; as fluffy toys. Wild animals (be that a…

  • Red Apple progress update

    We have been back in the country now for two and a half weeks. We took a couple of days off just to get back into things but we have been giving our new venture most of our attention for the last week and a half. Although we had some serious shocks, I have to…

  • Online at Last

    I am finally back online with an acceptable (albeit expensive) connection. I did manage to send a few emails and to update my blog once, but all of that was done through my parents’ 56K modem with the good ol’e tone and all! ADSL in SA is insanely expensive. Our 1MB that is capped at…

  • Back in the RSA!

    We’ll we’ve been back in the good old Republic of South-Africa now for a couple of days. It is winter but after some good rains in the first couple of days we have had some fantastic weather. The photo is of the Boesmansrivier (Bushman’s River), from my parents’ house. Remember this is winter! I must…

  • Goodbye SNB & Corpy!

    After 15 months at The Housing Corporation, my contract ended yesterday. I worked at the Housing Corporation as a consultant for Sopra Newell & Budge. I worked on two projects; Compliance Audit as a Team Leader and Core Systems Rewrite as a Team Leader/Technical Architect. CA succesfully went live a couple of months ago, but…

  • Another Youtube beauty

    Absolutely adore this. Keep your eyes on the expressions of the Hippo. Even Nick Parks from Wallace & Grommit must be impressed by this. If this doesn’t play, go directly to Youtube.

  • THIS is the 80s

    I entered the eighties as a 7-year old and left it when I was 17. This beautiful video by the Mint Brothers encapsulates the 80s in America brilliantly. I can just see all the movies from that era flash in front of me now. The song (also very eighties) is Sister Christian by the Night…

  • London Heatwave: some perspective

    Man was it hot today! The thermometer went all the way up to 36.3¦C. This is the hottest day in the UK for July since records have been kept. The hottest that it has ever been in the UK is a whopping 38.5¦C. That was recorded three years ago in August 2003. As a South-African…