Sihle Khumalo was born in Nqutu, a small rural town in northern KwaZulu. He grew up in Pietermaritzburg where he matriculated in 1991 and (“just like a lot of darkies,” as he puts it) spent a year loitering at home because his single mother, who was a school teacher, could not afford immediately to send him to a tertiary institution. He subsequently attended the then Natal Technikon (now Durban Institute of Technology) and worked in the Port of Durban for ten years, four as a risk manager. He currently works for an Exploration Division of a Global Mining Company. He is married and has two children.
“I had always wanted to write a book but I had never known what type of a book I would write. As my 30th birthday was getting closer I thought, why don’t I do the Cape to Cairo, which I had always wanted to do – and then after the trip attempt to write a book based on my travels and thus kill two birds with one stone. As they say, the rest is history.”
- You’re invited to notify Sihle at sihle.khumalo@webmail.co.za if you still think Africa is a dark continent. Or, even better, leave a comment on his blog: here’s how.
