Today (Tues) we are walking in the Drakensberg mountains, but I haven't been able to get to a terminal for a bit so, power cuts permitting, I will try to catch up on the past few days.
On Friday we did a tour of Soweto. It was very hot, ... over 30 degrees but we were in a comfortable Mercedes tour bus complete with water cooler! The tour was very interesting and I was surprised with the variation within Soweto. We saw rich houses (a few) as well as the match-boxes houses of the middle class and the shanty towns.
Our tour gudes were delightful, though the driver wasn't interested in coming into the Hector Pieterson museum (on the riots and apartied) because he had lived through it. The actual Soweto guides lived in the shanty towns and were all part of community improvement schemes. They were extremely knowledgable and to finish the tour one sang us a click song, which to me summed up the place, which was of much more hope and growth than other shanty towns I've seen. However this is an experience that I think everyone who come to South Africa should undergo.
