DAVE DURBACH
 Growing up in Cape Town, I seldom had the chance to venture outside of the province. A product of your typical middle-class broken home, words and music were always there for me.
My first trip overseas was as a 13-year-old on a three-week school rugby tour to England. Ten years later, as an aspiring documentary filmmaker, I set off across the USA on a two month Greyhound journey from Kentucky to California, taming the Bible belt, meeting and interviewing Americans from all walks of life. On either end of the road trip were two months in New York, where my aunt, a journalist, has lived for over 20 years and where I would one day like to return.
In 2007, as an aspiring development worker, I spent six months in India working for the Barefoot College and the Global Rainwater Harvesting Collective, travelling over 15 000km to every corner of the country, visiting rural NGO’s and schools, taking photographs, collecting information and interviewing children.
Over the years, I’ve also worked as a cricket journalist, pizza delivery boy, late night DJ, video store clerk, band manager, English teacher and copy editor for a local tourism magazine. In the process I gained an honours degree in Diversity Studies from the University of Cape Town, taking a special interest in the effects of gentrification on the city. I continue to write in a freelance capacity for youth, music and travel-orientated publications. Other interests include politics, history, photography, cooking, rock-climbing, football and the beach.
Life is short and money does not mean happiness. Cape Town is a beautiful place to call home but travel is in my blood. I’ll be leaving for South Korea in early 2008. Following this I’m hoping to continue my studies in Europe before an epic journey through Africa - looking, listening and writing all along the way.
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The Editorial Team
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