Lost in Faith

January 18, 19 Traveling to Bhoquini, South Africa

Our planned departure was 5 am but because we need to pick up a few things we didn’t get on the road until 10:45 am.  That may sound frustrating but I’ve found this to be a normal occurrence.  They all seem to take this in stride.  There is [...]

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January 17, 2006
 
A different side of South Africa exposed itself today.  We spent the night (16th) in Plettenberg Bay, a beautiful little city with a view of the ocean from everywhere.  It was a relaxing evening well needed because of the extremes of the previous’ days events. 
 
The morning found us at Buffalo Hills game [...]

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January 16, 2007
 
Again today we start with an assault.  Seaview Scatters Camp is a step DOWN from the townships.  This place has no running water or no electricity.  It looks like places built by homeless people under a bridge only it houses thousands of men, women and children.  Predictions are that 50% of them are [...]

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January 15, 2007
 
Today we head to the Townships.  Typically under Apartheid, a township was a black city that was expected to exist “separate” from the white population.  It was in these cauldrons of discontent that the African National Congress found its beginnings.  It is also where “the epidemic” has it greatest impact.  White South Africans [...]

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January 14, 2007
 
After a glorious breakfast again provided by South African Airlines, we boarded our flight to Port Elizabeth.  By now I’ve become native enough to call it PE like my fellow natives!
 
Strange thoughts flying south over Africa. 
I was on my way to the homeland of Nelson Mandela.
I remember Peter Botha and his [...]

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Jan. 13, 2007
 
Leaving the confines of the land of the free and home of the brave one never knows what to expect.  It was evident in the faces of my fellow passengers that the world to which I was headed would possess more color than my lily white environs.
 
A sixteen hour flight goes by amazingly [...]

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We’re packed and ready to go.  Plane leaves at 8 am from KCI.  Our United flight will take us to Washington Dulles Int’l and then South Africa Air will take us 16 hours across the Atlantic to Johannesburg, South Africa.  After a 4 hour lay over we’ll catch a flight to Port Elizabeth arriving around [...]

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