by Gary Scott | Jun 2, 2025 | Village Life, Weather
It’s 2 June 2025, and winter has swept into Franschhoek like a gilded debutante, draped in golden sunshine and balmy breezes that ripple through the vineyards. The sky is a crystalline blue, save for a single wispy cloud that hovers like a bashful freshman refusing to...
by Gary Scott | Nov 13, 2023 | Village Life
The Curse of Fatherlessness – A Social Pandemic Fatherlessness is a pandemic that is affecting the human race across the globe, regardless of race, culture, or community. This issue is prevalent in every generation, and it can be compared to Covid and the Spanish Flu...
by Gary Scott | Feb 28, 2023 | Tourism, Village Life
We Do Not Want Parking Management On The Main Road In Franschhoek Franschhoek is a village, a tourist hot spot village. It has been a tourist hotspot village for at least 15 years now. It has always had a high flow of cars in and out of the village during this time,...
by Gary Scott | Mar 11, 2022 | Stories
Franschhoek Load Shedding! What Load Shedding? And so it continues. The lights remain on. They should be off according to the stage 4 load shedding schedule, yet there they are burning bright. It is the third day, the silence continues along with the lights staying on...
by Gary Scott | Nov 29, 2021 | Stories
My Franschhoek Story – Coming Home! The Dreams of the Afflicted I trudged through the avenues, my feet dragging along the slick pavement as shadows stretched and deepened around me. An insistent urgency gnawed at my insides, a desperate need for refuge before night...
