Barberton rocks!
“This is the kind of town I live in,” says Sheryn Nader, plonking a stack of books on the table. We’re at The Genesis Restaurant for dinner and pink G&Ts. “I just grabbed a few to show you how much has been written about this place. I have more than 200 books that reference Barberton.”
Raindrops start falling on the restaurant’s tin roof. It’s music to our ears since the town is facing a drought.
We page through the books: Dynamite and Daisies by Piet Meiring, Lost Trails in the Makhonjwa Mountains by Bernard John Lovell de Souza, No Time To Die by Grace H Hall, Pioneers of the Lowveld and Cockney Liz: Legendary Barmaid of Barberton by Hans Bornman.
Sheryn is an occupational therapist, originally from Pretoria. “I had better job offers there than here, but when I saw the mountains, I knew that this was home.”
In true Barbertonian fashion, Sheryn is also writing a book. “There are lots of people like me,” she says.
