A series of three journeys home by unique South Africans – back to what they left behind, what they miss, and what they need to reconnect with. Powered by Isuzu and Getaway.
Home. For some, it’s a person; for others, a place. Some say it’s a feeling; others, a familiar space that holds ideas and emotions and dreams. It’s a collection of memories – some cherished, others best forgotten – that can linger a lifetime. Home is an accent; a landscape; a tradition. It is that one specific tree on a winding dirt road. Home is a prayer; a photograph; a song that tugs on the heart-strings. It’s somewhere to return time and again – or, to leave forever. A place that is as much about freedom as it is about boundaries. Home is a space that pushes and pulls; that triggers, nurtures, demands, and consoles. It is a place of safety; a place of challenge; a place of growth. Home is the beginning of one journey, and the destination on another. Yes, it can be just a place – but also, it can be everything. Home. It’s complicated.
Over the next six weeks we will travel alongside three creative South Africans – a musical director, a writer and a comedian – as they take an Isuzu D-Max on a bold, unforgettable journey from the city in which they live, to the tucked-away place they still call home. Although the routes they travel will showcase spectacular scenery, the trips are as much about the destination as they are the roads, because each artist is going home for a very specific (and very personal) reason. Are you up for the ride? Come on – it’s time to go home.
From Cape Town to Villiersdorp, with Charl-Johan Lingenfelder
The bright city lights of Cape Town are a far, far cry from sleepy 1980s Villiersdorp, where internationally acclaimed musical director and composer Charl-Johan Lingenfelder was raised. Now, 37 years after he completed matric, Charl-Johan is returning “home” – driving an Isuzu D-Max from the Mother City via the beautiful Du Toitskloof Pass to the wide streets of Villiersdorp – to sound out a school choir for a new album he’s working on. It’s a remarkable journey, as poignant as it is beautiful… because when you’re the boy who won the dorp’s flower-arranging competitions, going home – even after all these years – is anything but simple.
From Sunrise-on-Sea to Indwe, with Anneliese Burgess
Anneliese Burgess was an Eastern Cape farm girl, raised in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains during the tail end of the apartheid era. When she left the farm to study at Stellenbosch University her world imploded as she began to question and relearn everything she thought she knew about her country and its people. Anneliese, now an award-winning investigative journalist, is working on a very personal book and, just days after the death of her beloved father, returns to her childhood home to search through family albums for an image that is key to her story. She will drive an Isuzu D-Max through a landscape that is achingly beautiful, undertaking a journey that is rooted in courage and honesty, to the place she has always known as home.
From Pretoria to Tibanefontein, with Noko Moswete
All the world is her stage, and while stand-up comic Noko Moswete’s star is rising – her schedule is packed with comedy tours, live gigs and recording Netflix shows – she remains deeply connected to her hometown. Noko and her soul-sister Lesedi road trip from Pretoria to Tibanefontein, a village on the fringe of the Waterberg, for a homecoming celebration like no other. It’s a fun, light-hearted journey that celebrates sisterhood – and their trip in a bold Isuzu D-MAX reveals one of the most spectacular mountain passes you’ve probably never heard of.
WIN
Follow the three journeys in the Isuzu D-Max and Getaway Ikhaya Lekhaya campaign and you stand a chance to win a spectacular five-night holiday for four people to the Indian Ocean paradise of Seychelles. For more details and to enter, click here www.getaway.co.za/competitions The competition closes at 3pm on 2 December 2022.
