SONA2017 - 441 was the talking point of this year's South African Sate of the Nation Address (SONA). This was the number of South African National Defense Forces (SANDF) President Zuma deployed to protect the president from its people - the first time in democratic history. The move, naturally, struck a chord with those in opposition parties. The day kicked off with EFF protesters gathering illegally on Adderly and Church Street. Under the careful eye of some 2,000 police, caspers, barbed wire and helicopters barricaded the streets of Cape Town. The day's peace was nearly disturbed when 300 school uniformed children charged around the corner chanting African National Congress (ANC) slogans and making a b-line for the EFF. The children could identify an iphone and yet struggled to give reason as to why they would want to goad the opposition. The two groups were forced apart by a police wall. All this while, thousands of ANC supporters gathered at a legal People's Assembly, a mere two blocks away, on Grand Parade.
Work starts before dawn, in their bee suits the team walk with the hives on their heads before the bees get aggressive, on 17 November 2016. Morudi based her bee hive business on research by Dr Lucy King, Head of the Human-Elephant Co-Existence Program for Save the Elephants, who realised that African elephants are scared of the noise of African honey bees and will avoid beehives at all costs in the wild. The bees sting the elephants' soft skin; their eyes; face; trunk and mouth.
