Every travel, local or international, is an occasion to be challenged and an opportunity to appreciate home some more. As our people say, a child who doesn't travel assumes his mother is the word's best cook. A recent visit to Cape town, South Africa's "White" City, left me with enough material for reflection for a while.
First the negatives. Every time I visit South Africa I cry for that beloved country. The fermenting anger by the majority black community continually seeks an escape valve. For a while, this pressure has conveniently been released through violence at the "Makwerekweres"; immigrants from North of the Limpopo. Sooner or later it will boil beyond these easy targets and may cause race based civil war.