Saturday, December 7, 2013

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At half past eight we stand on. We have breakfast in the dining room and beat the eggs, but again. This breakfast is also not necessary, there is a lot and it's all nicely displayed. We choose the delicious fresh fruit with yogurt, and finally eat again wholemeal bread.
At a quarter past nine we are picked ufsc a la carte up for a township tour in Cape Town. Our guide, Johnny, is a so-called colored, not black, ufsc a la carte not white. He speaks Afrikaans, so we can understand him well. Johnny explains the emergence of Cape Town from from the moment Van Riebeek arrived.
We drive along the N2 towards the airport, again along the many slums as of the day before we were shocked. Johnny explains the evolution of segregated neighborhoods, which began around 1900. Until 1900 South Africa was a multiracial society where all races and colors ufsc a la carte next to each other and lived. From 1900 this changed, because the whites did not want to live. With blacks in a neighborhood ufsc a la carte Each ethnic group had to get his home area, areas that were separated by roads or railways. Such a community had only one entrance, so that the population could not interfere with each other. Creator of the perfect separation system was the Swiss Le Corbusier. "If you want to achieve a complete separation of the population then go to work as a surgeon during an operation."
The slums that we see along the highway, are often the outer rings of existing townships. They occur because people from the countryside or from other African countries to the city to look for work. The shacks are made of planks, pieces of plastic, cardboard or corrugated, and all you can use it further. They are not connected to water or sewer. Toilets ufsc a la carte are buckets with a pair of corrugated iron around, water is obtained from a common tap for an entire neighborhood of shacks. Electricity poles are there, here people can advance through tapping. Cooking is done on open fire is not for nothing that these neighborhoods ignite regularly.
Within this ring of slums are the 'normal' houses who are connected to water and sewer. Just is still poor for us, but the houses are made of stone, in any case, have windows and a door and often a place to sit.
Within the townships, schools, ufsc a la carte churches, many private businesses, but also modern shopping malls and gas stations. These malls are new, it is the first time that we see a modern shopping center in a township. Phalaborwa in the stores did not want to invest in townships.
It is Sunday ufsc a la carte and it is especially in the slums buzzing street. The stalls goes on, so here fruit and vegetable sales, fried chicken, clothing and every street corner a hairdresser (three corrugated iron and a trimmer) and a car wash (three ufsc a la carte corrugated sheets and a bucket). Specifically, the street where building materials are sold: used corrugated iron, shelves and doors to build your own hovel.
Laundry hanging everywhere: among the houses, on the roofs and the mesh fences along the railway. ufsc a la carte Streets are no more than (now muddy) paths of about 50 cm wide, where children between races or people just stand to stand. Between the districts are well paved roads constructed.
We go to a gospel church service in a classier part of the township. It is a church with a history, because in the time of apartheid riots people were captured here. There are many cars in the church, so that churchgoers are pretty ufsc a la carte good.
It is a Catholic service, with all the bells and whistles that come with it, and as we see in Dutch churches with incense, altar servers, Ouweltjes etc. The choir is supplemented today with a guest choir and comprises a total of about 80 people. Their singing with supporting harpsichord music sounds great in the high church. Singing alternates with a sermon by the pastor but also notices from the community. We are even specifically mentioned as visitors from Holland. Nice is a sign of the priest everyone who is going to give each other a hand to peace and hapiness to wish close together
We visit an orphanage. This is a project set up by 'Mama Rosie, "who ever had a baby on the beach and found it was lost by any authority. She then realized that she only had to do for children who are abandoned put something themselves, or who can not attend ufsc a la carte for any reason whatsoever at home. From there, the mom Rosie Foundation emerged, now sponsored ufsc a la carte by foreign institutions including Dutch. The orphanage ufsc a la carte consists of a number of houses next to each other on a walled (plus wire) grounds. There is a home for children up to 3 years, a hu

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