SA is a great hiking country

A story I love to tell, which sounds outrageous but is technically true, is that I am the holder of a word first: I am the first person to have toyitoyied in the Antarctic.

- Brendan Seery

It did start as a method to kick the snow off my inappropriate running shoes before I went inside at the Sanae (SA National Antarctic Expedition) base on the ice-shelf.

As I added chants similar to the ones I'd heard in protests, I got witnesses to concur this was the first time anyone had performed the protest dance this far south.

In those days - early 1995 - very few Africans had been to Sanae and if they did, were not ANC hotheads... so I'm safe on that claim.