Nippy snippy: Meet Cape Town's barber-on-wheels

17 January 2016 - 02:00
By Farren Collins

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a two-wheeled hairdresser. Farren Collins meets the quickest cut in the Cape Jonathan Joel Ueckermann doesn't give off the kind of self-assuredness or faux intellect often associated with hipsters. Instead he appears nervously aware of his limitations. We sit down for sugar-free coffee - he and his girlfriend recently quit sugar after watching a doccie - in his Tamboerskloof flat in Cape Town, where he has been smiling since my arrival, and possibly before.

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