Rodgers is my hero

I read your interview with Rodgers Hobyane, camp attendant of Tsendze in the Kruger, with great interest ( go! #130). My friends and I first met Rodgers in 1998 when he was our hut attendant at Shimuwini Bush Camp. One day, after birding on the lowwater bridge on the H14, our Kombi refused to start. Two vehicles approached and we managed to push the Kombi off the bridge so they could pass. We asked the one driver, who was on his way to Shimuwini, to please let reception know that we were stuck. Shortly thereafter, two big men in a fancy Prado stopped and spent the next hour trying to find and fix the problem. Then a little brown bakkie with the SANParks logo arrived. Out climbed Rodgers. He strolled over, opened the fuse box, flicked out a burnt fuse and replaced it… Voilà, the Kombi started! I’ve subsequently bumped into Rodgers several times and he always recognises our bunch of girls in the Kombi, even if it’s a different Kombi these days. PAT KING, Johannesburg