Funny story from today’s Herald – has this guy never heard of the internet!
ELEPHANT Sanctuary owner Chris Kruger yesterday spent about R5000 and his entire morning buying up every copy of The Herald he could find in Plettenberg Bay and Knysna.
Kruger’s efforts, confirmed by a number of shop owners who recognised him, were apparently an attempt to stop locals from reading the front-page story about an elephant handler who was gored in the chest by an eight-year-old cow at the Elephant Sanctuary in The Crags on Monday.
Although Kruger confirmed the incident in a statement issued to The Herald on Tuesday, he could not be reached yesterday for comment on his Herculean newspaper-buying spree.
The Herald staff found about 1000 copies of the newspaper where Kruger had dumped them at the Plett waste recycling plant early yesterday afternoon.
Workers at the plant said he arrived with his car’s boot full of “fresh” newspapers.
The Herald’s offices were earlier inundated with calls from irate readers who said they had been unable to find any copies of their favourite newspaper, the last daily still serving the region with a dedicated Garden Route edition.
Bemused shop owners laughed when asked what had happened to all the copies.
“You won’t find a Herald anywhere in Plett today. Chris took them all,” said a shop manager who asked to remain anonymous.


I found two guinea fowl eggs while trimming the lavender this week-end. The nest has been abandoned and we’ve had a cold spell so I explained to the boys that these were babies that would never roam the garden.
I’ve been browsing Marlena de Blasi’s A thousand days in Tuscany and there can’t be much to beat that rural Italian cuisine. She fries Zucchini blossoms, but I have replaced them with the peppery Nasturtium flowers that grow like weeds in my herb garden and on the compost heap. Delicious.







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