Date: February 27, 2008 6:46:58 AM HST Saturday, February 16, 2008 – Soweto Township For the past eleven days, with the exception of the four days Yunus and I traveled to Swaziland, we have been staying with the Ahmed family in Roshnee, a formerly all-Indian township in Vereeniging, about twenty-five kilometers outside Jo’burg. Razvi, Yunus’…
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Date: February 26, 2008 6:04:02 AM HST Wednesday, February 13, 2008 – Mbabane, Swaziland Yunus and I made the four-hour drive from the Jo’burg area to Swaziland on Sunday. We’ve been here since, staying in one of the guest cottages at Waterford School, which Yunus attended until the mid-1970s, when the South African government took…
Date: February 17, 2008 10:41:15 AM HST February 9, 2008 – Johannesburg I’ve fallen a week behind in writing these journal entries. My days have been so full that before I’m able to write down everything that needs to be said from one day’s experience, I’m thrown headfirst into the next day’s mind/heart-blowing adventure. In…
Date: February 16, 2008 11:25:19 AM HST Friday, February 8, 2008 – Pretoria (am), Evaton Township (pm) Yesterday I was arrested; today I went to prison. No, I’m not quoting a line from a Merle Haggard song. Yunus; Fred Mednick, head of Teachers Without Borders (TWB, the organization with which Yunus is affiliated); a white…
Date: February 15, 2008 10:30:13 PM HST Thursday, February 7, 2008 – Sharpeville Township Before I came to South Africa, I tended to equate the term “apartheid” with segregation, but now I realize that like everything in this country, it’s a lot more complex than I originally thought. Made official in 1948, apartheid refers to…
Date: February 15, 2008 1:47:45 AM HST Monday, February 4, 2008 – Port Shepstone I probably should have mentioned by now that despite the impression I’ve given so far, not everyone in South Africa is poor. I’ve seen attractive houses, later model cars than I drive, restaurants and upscale hotels. In less than a week,…
Date: February 6, 2008 10:54:48 PM HST Friday, February 1, 2008 – Port St. Johns The “Lonely Planet” guide describes Port St. Johns, located along the coast in the Eastern Cape, as follows: “The deliciously laid-back Port St. Johns is a magnet for hippy types both young and old. This idyllic little town on the…
Date: February 6, 2008 10:09:30 PM HST Thursday, January 31, 2008 – Mthatha Mthatha is a dusty city in the Eastern Cape, one of the most beautiful but poorest provinces in South Africa. The city has three or four high-rise buildings of fewer than ten stories, and Trinset Teacher Training College occupies several acres just…
Date: February 1, 2008 9:01:24 PM HST Subject: South Africa — Win Healy wrote: From: Win Healy Subject: Re: South Africa #2 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 07:56:23 -0500 To: jay seidenstein > Jay, > I am moved from my preoccupations with the struggling economy of a small New England town, with high taxes and…
Date: January 31, 2008 10:52:57 AM HST Subject: South Africa Monday, January 28, 2008 – Port Shepstone Pauline Duncan is a 63-year old white South African. A former elementary school principal, she also served as mayor of Port Shepstone during the final years of apartheid, from 1988 until 1991 or 1992 (apartheid ended in 1994)….