BINNEKRING BLOG
Solar Santa Goes to Quaggafontein 2022
Story and Pics by Ronnie Jack The long wait is over. After three painful years AfrikaBurn is back. As nearly a thousand miles lie behind me the dreaded R355 shakes my car to pieces and covers me in …More »
THERE IS NO PLAN ~ The ongoing adventures of Solar Santa
“I’m afraid the grand plan has gone pie shaped”. The message is from the Oracle of the Tankwa. The visit to the Cape has been months in the making. Designed to stop me from going bosbevok from overexposure to lockdown. …More »
HomeBurn: a trilogy in four parts ~ Part 2: The Phoenix at the End of the Pangolin
Words by Solar Santa with Nathan Victor Honey, May 2020 Photos by Nathan Honey except the one of himself (header image taken by Mark Thomas) Solar Santa continues on his dusty virtual journey into the heart of HomeBurn 2020. This …More »
HomeBurn: a trilogy in four parts ~ Part 1: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to HomeBurn
Words by Solar Santa with Scheepers de Bruin, May 2020 (featured image photo by Gita Claassen) It was my plan to complete a trilogy of Burn stories in 2020. Like so many Burn plans it crashed and burnt (symbolically) when …More »
Clan 2020 – Call For Input
In 2020, our Clan effigy will stand for the last time at Stonehenge – and as part of its design, the creators of our central artwork are calling out for your input. Part of our Clan effigy plans for 2020 …More »
Tankwa Town has found a new home!
We’ve got a big announcement to make folks – Tankwa Town has a new home! Next year at our 2020 main annual event we’ll bid farewell to our beloved Stoney – and in 2021 Tankwa Town will rise from the …More »
The Whimsy of a Wallflower in the Wasteland
Words by Gernus Oosthuizen on June 1, 2019 Rising like a dusty mirage out of the Karoo heat, there’s a city that many call home. It’s a manifestation of our collective imagination and the culmination of our collective …More »
Painted Boots and a Beard ~ Part 1
Writing and pictures by Solar Santa. The adventures of Solar Santa at the Burn 2019 in no particular order It is first light. The cherry picker is high in the sky and the DPW (Department of Public Works) electrician hard …More »
Our 2019 Survey is here!
It would be true to say that there isn’t one AfrikaBurn experience – rather, there are as many as there are participants in Tankwa Town, and every person will see and experience a different event, depending on their engagement in …More »
Decompression is ON!
Together, we created an incredible Ephemeropolis in the dust – and now that the dust has settled, we gather to share our experiences at the Decompression. Just like Tankwa Town, our Decom is a blank canvas where you’re the …More »
