After spending one more day at a "proper beach" (as the locals call a gorgeous beach), we spent our very last day in South Africa in Cape Town visiting the Mandela Museum, Cape Town fort found while digging a foundation & soaking up the energetic feel of Cape Town.
Rog & I leave SA having marveled at the beauty & loved the people but also turned with feelings about the poverty & obvious difference between the blacks & whites...and SA's future. We feel guilty knowing we were only part of the white's world as all our Airbnbs have been owned by the whites & cleaned by the blacks. As hard as we tried, we didn't find a way to be part of the blacks ' world.
Ironically, when I needed to swap out the book I'd finished reading at one of our Airbnbs, The Help by Stockett was staring me in the face. It's about the black/white situation in Mississippi in the early 60's...or it could of been in SA in 2020. It is written from the blacks' point of view. Reading The Help opens a window to how the blacks might be feeling here.
Rog has been writing lots about this subject so I'll let him go in depth and try to capture our experiences and struggles to be a tourist here.
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