The Finals!

Are finally here!
3 tix... for Darb, Nic & I ...

NED bus waiting for the team :

Efan Ekoku preps for the game :

Christie show-cases the custom vuvuzelas :

IBC humor!

Hangin in the IBC halls w/ daddio :

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Soweto : 10 July

We were given a special tour yesterday.

Moss Tau, a friend of Hugh Masekela (famous South African musician, and Sal's dad), gave us a first hand tour and account of the Soweto Uprising that started 16 June 1976.

Moss had been 30 yrs old at the time, too old to participate, as it was the students that had risen up in protest of a new law that was to mandate schools use the Africaans (Dutch-based) language, instead of English. His children were still in elementary school.

We went to visit the newly-erected statue of the student leader of the uprising Teboho "Tsietsi" Mashinini, which is on the grounds of the high school he attended.



We then followed the route the students had walked, and stopped at the site of their 1st clash with the police - near the Hector Pieterson memorial :

We also visited the houses of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu - who lived on the same street in Soweto ... I can only imagine the level of political activity there in the 50s and 60s!

Lunch at Nabita... Making friends.
Nic's same 2 questions work all over the world : "what's your name?" and "how old are you?"