Chris Stevendale

Yet another very busy day today.  We visited 2 primary schools in Langa Township.  Both had little with regard to resources, though one had a computer suite.  Classes are huge with 40+ ‘learners’ - even in the computing class.  We had the opportunity to interact much more with the learners and it was wonderful to see their faces light up.  Hopefully, I have some very good video shots of this.  They even sang us a song and told us a joke.

Afterwards, we were taken on a tour of the Township.  The housing varies considerably from shanty houses (or huts) to proper bungalow style accommodation.  During the tour, we visited a medicine man (not sure if this was set up for us or not), helped some unemployed by buying gifts and were taken into a back-street shebeen to taste a sort of hooch (sorghum mill) - a tiny sip was all I could manage!

Next we went to District Six Museum where it shows the events at the time when blacks were forcibly moved out of their homes/area to make way for white housing. 

Tonight we are going for a braai (barbecue) to the house of the ‘headmaster’ from the first school that we visited.