South Africa

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I arrived in Johannesburg and joined a group for a whistlestop tour of South Africa.
We were in total about 12 plus our guide, Jan, who also drove the
touring vehicle. We had a free day and were persuaded by a friend of Jan
to pay a visit to Soweto. This chap (don't remember his name) knew some people who would welcome us.

Images of Soweto

We were chaperoned around the township where this lady invited us into her home.
All buildings are built of a combination of corrugated iron, wood, plastic and other
found objects, somehow cobbled together to make homes and shelters.

This man acted as our guide and chaperone and took us to this
shabeen where we sampled a can of the local homebrew.

We drove on to visit this bungalow which used to be the home of Nelson
and Winnie Mandela, before his incarceration, and is now a museum.
They lived here for years without being able to go out even into their garden for fear
of being shot. Snipers were positioned to shoot at any sign of movement so windows were
boarded and there are many accounts of such incidents and photographs
to be viewed within, as well as accounts of other atrocities which ocurred during the apartheid period.
No cameras allowed inside tho'! The walls are pockmarked from bullets.

A more prosperous area of Soweto and the then current home of Winnie Mandela

The next day we moved away from Joburg and made our way down from
the temperate, rolling plateau of the highveld, over the escarpment to
the sub-tropical Mpumalanga. We stopped here at the natural rock pools
of the Mac Mac Falls.

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