We spent the day in Jo’burg, first at the Apartheid Museum for a couple of hours. It was both interesting and sad, seeing more details of past events. People here are mostly moving on from the past and the young people were born afterwards so didn’t live through it.
After lunch we went to Soweto (South West Townships) where the trouble and violence had occurred. We visited what had been Nelson Mandela’s house, a busy place, very small, three rooms, and full of mementos.
We saw the big soccer stadium, built for the World Cup in 2010. It is under-used now, just for local leagues and almost never filled to capacity.
We had another lovely dinner out at Coriander’s, I had Scottish salmon cooked in an Asian way - I didn’t want another big meat dinner. Ian had a prawn curry and no room for starters or dessert.
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