All about: Johannesburg

February 28. Goodbye Africa.
Our flight to Dubai is late at night, so we use the day to do some writing in the same seventh street we remember from our last visit to Joburg. We have a delicious lunch in a French place and I write a few dull paragraphs.
And then we say goodbye to Etienne and Abi, ...
February 26-27. Soweto.
Soweto was just a word associated with danger and death. I've heard many warnings not to enter there and I expect the corresponding danger. Soweto! But it's not dangerous at-all. We take a bus to Nelson Mandela's place, a boring concrete museum, and ask for some NGO operating in the area. They send us to ...
February 24. Guy the beekeeper.
Dobermann puppies cuddle on the couches as we enjoy a "farm" breakfast in the guesthouse. It will keep us going for a while and we walk back to the main road. The 15-minutes rule does apply today: Guy the beekeeper picks us up and takes us to Johannesburg via Pretoria. We go shopping for equipment ...
January 29. Whiskey cocktail?
Now we walk along the highway to Kempton park, take a minibus to downtown and swoosh up the 50 floor Carlton center tower to oversee the city. Square blocks, highrises. Only the distant African landscape reminds us we are still in Africa. We see buses meandering around Ghandi square, and being fans of Ghandi we ...
January 28.Amazing Seat Neighbour Coincidence.
We take an early morning matatu to the Donholm junction and change bus to the airport. Some writing in the departure hall, an expensive breakfast larded with a guilty feeling, an abundant intake of cappuccino and avocado sandwich, a safe flight to Johannesburg with a random encounter of sorts.

Wycliffe, my seat neighbour, is ...
Ikageng
Ikageng Centre JohannesburgJo-burg, South Africa. February 26th, 2010"Ikageng aims to improve the quality of life for orphaned and other vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS on a sustainable basis, and to ensure that they achive and live a fair life like every other child [and] to help develop [them] into educated, employable adults who could be ...