Blacks don’t caravan, thought Fikile Hlatshwayo when her family presented her with the idea of travelling across SA towing a caravan.“But I had no choice,” she writes. “Either I stayed miserable and severely depressed in my secure home, or I joined my family to enjoy the beauty of our country in the most affordable way. I gave in, but it did take a lot of convincing!”So began a three-month holiday in which the family covered over 10,000km, visiting over 25 caravan parks across all nine provinces. Later they extended this, travelling over 25,000km and to more than 60 caravan parks in SA and Swaziland. Hlatshwayo, it seems, is now hooked.Diagnosed as clinically depressed before the start of her trip, Hlatshwayo notes that depression is often perceived as a “white” disease. “In isiZulu, there is no word for depression. It is a sickness that carries a lot of stigma and is often associated with weakness, worthlessness and mental disturbance,” she writes.Just as Hlatshwayo found through c...
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