township.

Oh internet. Sweet internet.  How I’ve missed thee.  For the very frist time on my journey I finally have internet.  Over the next few days I’ll be recapping my adventures through the African wilderness.  First up.  Cape Town.

I had an opportunity to explore some of the “townships”  Surrounding Cape Town proper.  It’s incredible the degree of poverty these people still live in to this day.

A picture of children playing in front of a handbuilt “shack”

Our guide was a gentleman that was born and raised in the township and he knew everyone there it seemed.  Also along the way we had an opportunity to stop into the local “pub” which was a stark black shack (due to the fires lit inside during the winter) with a few benches lining the walls.  At the pub I tasted some of the beer that the old woman brewed there and it actually wasn’t as bad as I had expected.  The beer was a little gritty with a sour aftertaste but not too bad.  There they drink according to tradition.  There is a large bucket in the center of the room and you pay a fee which enables you to drink as much as you want from the bucket all day.  No glasses, no tables, no problem.  Fun times.  Before we left we visited a local elementary school where as soon as the children saw us they came running to hug us.  Well all except the ones behind bars..

and the box boy..

anyways it was all very cute.  The townships are a difficult problem to solve but with the stopping of new shacks that can be built and more government funded construction hopefully these children won’t have to endure this for too much longer.