In his new book, Rainbow Nation My Zulu Arse, Sihle Khumalo travels around South Africa’s highways and byways, discovering the beautiful and bizarre.

After exploring more than 20 other African nations using only public transport in the bestselling  Dark Continent My Black Arse and Almost Sleeping My Way To Timbuktu, this time Khumalo roams within the borders of his own country.

The author visited eNCA to talk about the book, and summed up what he hopes readers will take from it:

‘We live in a beautiful country, we need to take time out to really explore our very own country,’ Khumalo says. ‘I don’t think we do that enough as South Africans. It’s very important that we know a lot about our country, the historical context. People from all over the world come and experience it and yet we, as South Africans, never experience that for ourselves. So that’s the first thing, we need to travel and explore our very own country.

‘Second, we must be very involved in what is happening in the country. We must not leave it to the politicians, that’s not good enough. We need to be involved. On the education of our children, if you feel the education system is not good enough, why are we quiet about it? We need to raise such issues. That is the only way we can move the country forward, by getting engaged as a society, irrespective of our political affiliations.’

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