Bringing pigeon fancying to the people
Nineteen-year-old Lodumo Nkala, based in Pretoria, became interested in racing pigeons at the age of nine, when he saw a flock of the birds fly over his grandparents’ garden in Rustenburg.
The pigeons belonged to the father of his soon-to-be best friend, Matthew Last, and Last taught him the basics of pigeon racing when he asked him to help clean out his father’s lofts.
“From then on, my love for pigeons grew, and I made it my goal to one day own racing pigeons,” Nkala says.
In 2017, while visiting his grandparents, who had subsequently moved to Hammanskraal in northern Gauteng, Nkala noticed a very colourful wild pigeon in the maize fields. “Its beautiful colour attracted me,” he remembers.
