Wednesday 14th
Published February 14th, 2007 in UncategorizedYet 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.
You will enjoy the Braai. I dont have many memories of my first one because as soon as we arrived we were given a crate of beer each and told to get stuck in !!!