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We’ve been here for over 24 hours now… and still loving it. South Africa truly is a beautiful country.
At just after 11am Sihle came to pick us up to take us into Soweto. It was an interesting time getting a small guided tour from someone who was brought up there. Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve arrived and South Africa is more beautiful than we remembered it. It’s a lovely cool summers day – an extremely pleasant welcome to our first experience of summer in Africa.
Today was our restful day as we recovered from the flight and prepared for the weeks ahead… little did we know what was actually going to be in store for us.
We’re staying at a B&B tonight and have been hearing from the couple who run it about their church’s hopes of planting a church in a nearby area called Sophiatown. Sophiatown apparently used to be a mixed area and was a hot bed of Jazz. But with apartheid came the forcible removal of all blacks from this area to another called Meadow View, which was literally… a meadow. Sophiatown became a home for poorer Afrikaners and changed its name to ‘Triomph’ – Victory. Read the rest of this entry »
