Greetings from Durban,
I’m in Durban for the next 10 days or so and soon is the kick off to INDABA 2014 which is one of the massive tourism fairs in Africa. It’s going to be pretty crazy and on Sunday I have an interview with SAfm; I’d share it but it’s not going to be something you all need to hear I’m quite sure. While in Johannesburg I went on an “Instawalk” which is basically a photo tour but you share it immediately on Instagram; hence the title “Strolling through Soweto”.
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There was a big turnout and I met a lot of interesting characters who are into their city, photography and social media. Soweto is an abbreviation for South Western Township and is famous for a few things one being incredibly great the other being incredibly sad. Let’s start with the great? Well Vilakazi Street was once home to not one but two Nobel Peace Prize winners; Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Oh yeah, this is the 20 year anniversary of the first democratic vote in South Africa’s history.
The bad news is that there was a big peaceful protest in 1976 where 10,000 kids marched from one spot to another and were gunned down by the police; 23 died the first day. What was it over? The Apartheid government wanted to make Afrikaans the official language taught in schools instead of English. Anyways this sparked worldwide attention and did lead to some positive changes in the townships; still a sad state of affairs is something I’ sure we can all agree upon. Photo below is the iconic snap taken of a fellow student carrying a dying Hector Pieterson while his sister runs besides them.
The place is pretty touristy and I went there in 2012 but this time was different. Strolling the streets with local characters is a way more authentic experience and something about hanging out with 100 people who are passionate about the same types of things causes a cool electricity which I very much enjoy. It’s sorta like when I traded stocks and had a distinguished gentlemen subscription in The PPT. It made trading stocks infinitely more interesting than sitting alone at my monitor eating donair kebabs while reading doomsday predictions on Google Finance and drinking Dunkin Donuts.
Much more later and big thanks to South African Tourism Office for inviting me to their country a second time and making this whole trip possible. I’m here as part of a campaign hosted by them and managed by the fine people at iambassador; obviously all opinions are my own.
I’d go on but I’ve got lots to do.
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