Exploring the largest swamp in the world, the mighty Okavongo, with the famous crocodile hunter Bobby Wilmot. Leaving South Africa in the middle of the apartheid regime and in the midst of family problems. A womans perspective in seeking a niche in which to make a home in Australia and finally finding it instead, after much searching, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Born in South Africa to parents who were both in the Portuguese Consular services in Johannesburg, Manuela is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand and is a clinical child psychologist in the area of neurological disorders, with training in educational and psychological methodologies dealing with brain injured children. She has degrees in Botany and Zoology as well as a Master’s degree in Education. Manuela has travelled extensively on all continents, including a stint at the University of Singapore, where she initiated new programs for brain injured children. Manuela married ice hockey star Tom Durling in South Africa, and admits she has never been able to hit a ball! She has two children, two grandchildren, and now a new great-grandson. Her family all live in Ottawa, Canada. She is now retired from Langara University in Vancouver British Columbia, where she initiated a new program to assist teachers in dealing with children with learning disabilities. She taught there for eighteen years. She lives in North Vancouver and she has never been back to South Africa.
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