Category: South Africa
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Fin
I have been back home now since last Tuesday night trying to revert back to my old life. It hasn’t been an easy transition, which is not surprising, and it has kept me from writing the final journal entry. Nonetheless, I thought I better get on this before the immediacy and clarity of my thoughts…
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Farewell Lesotho. And now back to South Africa.
I’ve been a little negligent on sending updates, mostly because I have been on the move a lot lately since I left Maseru. Today is my last full day in Jo’burg before returning home. The past week has flown by so quickly yet it seems I am a world away from Lesotho where I spent…
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A weekend break and a night on the town
A friend of mine told me before leaving on this trip of an article he had read predicting that Lesotho could be the first country to “disappear” because of disease, particularly AIDS. Lesotho’s prolonged drought and, as the world renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs would point out, its economic isolation as a landlocked country with limited…
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The build
We have been working at the build site since Thursday, but our first full day on the job was yesterday. The work is pretty strenuous all in all…digging foundations, brick-making or levelling the interior floor space once the outside structure is up (to prepare for concrete pouring). I have been spending most of my time…
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A visit to the townships part II
I finished off my last email talking about my visit to the Cape Town township or shantytown called Imizamoyethu. The last part of the visit was most interesting to me, not because it involved beer, but because it was the first genuine interaction we had with the locals. We entered the “Shebeen”, or unlicenced tavern,…
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A day in the townships
I thought I would send one more quick note before I take off for Lesotho today. I don’t know what my internet access will be there so this may be the last time you hear from me for awhile! Yesterday was yet another highlight in my short stay in Cape Town. A group of us…
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Hello from Cape Town
I arrived here Saturday night after a long wait at immigration. The flight went well even though it was excruciatingly long. I managed to break it up by using my layover in Amsterdam to take off into the city for a one-hour look-see. Not much to see in Amsterdam at 7:30 am, but hey, at…
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