It snowed. Also it was very considerate that it snowed on a Sunday morning as well. It was a heavy downpour and I donned many layers before I set off for a journey through Knowle Village. There were many people in the park and activities ranged from sledging to snowball fights. There were very few cars around and several had been left on the side of the roads. Even with my polariser lens filter, snow is very difficult to photograph. My favourite picture was of the red letterbox and mailbox. They have been in Knowle High Street for a very long time and were there when I arrived. Hope you like the pictures and it is starting to look a lot like Christmas now.
Christ the King – Sophiatown where many anti apartheid rebels sought sanctuary from the Government
This wonderful statue was on Constitutional Hill.
Another interesting place was near to Melville and it was called 27 boxes. It was a container village that had become a centre for arts and crafts. There were many small businesses located there.
Although there was work to be done in the conference, we did have a day out to visit Soweto and visited the Hector Pieterson Museum and Nelson Mandela’s house, 8115 in Soweto. All very memorable places to visit. On the final day after the conference finished, we jumped on the hop-on and hop-off bus. It gave use the chance to visit Constitutional Hill and the Apartheid Museum both of which raised stirring emotions not only of the period of British rule but also the past transgressions of the White government that imposed the evil of apartheid. The present society is fractured but it is trying its best to rectify itself and move forward. I left with some incredible memories of a place that is so different to normal cities that I have visited.
