Ten Bompas Hotel Sandton

... and appreciation (including Robert Kennedy). We were welcomed into his home by his family (unshowered and exhausted) as though we were long lost relatives. Sadly, the Archbishop was not there, but his wife and children and grandchildren were the most gracious of hosts. We were all very very honored to receive the invitation. <br><br>Joffe, who is senior ward at St Thomas's was also there and ...

... a view that the younger generations will fare better with race relations. Also, with better education, people are more likely to more closely examine who to vote for and what these people actually do when elected than simply vote according to some old idea or affiliation. The new President here, Zuma, scares the **** out of people. He's seen (among various color lines) as a 'crook' who might be taking South Africa the Zimbabwe route. Also, the ...

... Now the reason the line took long is because everybody was arguing and trying to sneak excess luggage into the plane. You had people offering "coffees" to the ladies behind the counter, and you had counter ladies asking for coffee. ha ha. I love bribery. It is so fair. It was super chaotic. We had groups of people yelling at each other and trying to get others to check in their luggage, so since I was standing there with only my rucksack, I was bombarded with pleas to carry ...

... this weekend. However, she will still need a few weeks to recover they think before she can fly home. Right now we are just playing day by day. Her mom and I are staying in a B &amp; B and the lady is amazing. She drives us early every day to the hospital and then picks us up late at night. Send Alli lots of love and prayers. She is a fighter and is now just in the long recovery stage but the worst part is over. I'll try to update this by the end of the week. Love you all!

... Zak, we headed into Soweto, the most famous township in the world. Zak had been born in Soweto, but moved as a child when the township's violence was at its peak. As a teenager he returned, studied at the Soweto campus of the University of Johannesburg, and now runs his own business, proudly showing tourists around his community. I must admit that the stories and stereotypes of Soweto made me quite nervous about taking this trip, and I had almost expected to feel some of the ...

... is among pregnant women-overall 29.1% are HIV-positive, but that figure approaches 40% in some areas. Ø It is estimated that 345,640 people died of AIDS in 2006. This figure is probably low because many deaths are misclassified, attributed solely to tuberculosis or respiratory disease instead of listing HIV as the underlying cause on the death certificate. Ø In 2005 alone, 1.2 million children here ...

... take people into Soweto and today I went on a tour into Soweto. We were mostly in an area known as Kliptown. It was orginally a mixed area where blacks, whites, Asians and other people lived side by side but the government during apartheid changed that and destroyed parts of it and moved residents elsewhere to keep the races separte. Parts of Soweto are wealthy and the homes are almost what you would see in other parts of Jo'burg but then there are the ...

I've been in South Africa for a week now and I've been pretty busy so haven't been able to get on the internet until now. I flew into Johannesburg and arrived early Friday morning. I then went to my hostel and went on a little tour of the city with one of the guys from the hostel. I was meant to be leaving the next day to go on safari in Kruger National Park, but the bus didn't turn up, so I stayed ...

... forever. It is with a lot of wonderful memories of adventures and fun that I board the airplane to ol' blighty. In summary, I ...

Hello South Africa! After a long 11.5 hour flight we landed at Jo'Burg in torrential rain!! After spending an hour waiting to get through immigration, we were thankfully met by Vaughan - Andy's Gran's cousin's son, who took us back to his house where we met his wife Wendy. They live in a nice house (with a guest wing for us!)in Parktown North area of Jo'Burg, a nice leafy suburb and quite a safe part of the city. We spent most of the next day planning out what to do ...