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Take your passport Dummy!
... got underway. The kids met some new cousins and they took to each other right away which was great. Gail and I have been having a lot of fun catching up with extended family. I haven't seen many of these people for 25 years; and some we are meeting for the first ...
Fun with Lion Cubs!
... during a high school student protest. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was captured on film which brought the world's attention to the plight of the South Africans under the rule of Apartheid. The museum recounts the events of those June days, the struggle under Apartheid but also educates people so that we can move forward and learn from our past. A must visit while in Jo'burg in my ...
Township living
... of soap and toilet paper. The school day runs from 7.50am when they hold a small assembly in the courtyard. They have a number of songs and prayers they recite and every day i hear them they give me goosebumps. They have so much more feeling and colour than the dreary hymns and readings we used to churn out at school assembly. Classes then theoretically begin at 8am but in reality it's normally nearer 8.30 am by the time the staff have had a pow wow in the office. ...
Soweto By Bike
... marginal then things will get done as the party’s try to make people happy.
Next was eating some meat at a street stall that had been cooked a special way and was considered a delicacy. Not bad at all. While we were eating a van drove past with a lady talking on a loudspeaker out the window. Turns out it was a mobile HIV testing unit that was getting out where people were at risk but not getting tested. Good to see, as well as the multitude of billboards ...
Sleepless in South Africa
... with all the members of our tour - about $7NZ.
Mokopane has a platinum mine nearby.
We crossed into the Botswana border and changed some money, then drove hundreds of kilometres into Botswana. Botswana is a very law abiding country of 1.6 million, with 600,000 square kilometres. We saw many little "villages" consisting of a couple of mud huts with thatched roofs and some animals. Animals are everywhere over the roads, they seem to ...
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