vrijdag 28 februari 2014

Jozi

Johannesburg, Joburg, Jobourg, Jozi, the city of gold. 

The skyline makes me think of Chicago: many skyscrapers, older and newer ones. 

Inside there are the very old buildings and neighbourhoods and the new ones, Wimpie bars included. 

The black population mainly in the centre and in the townships. The white people in burglarproof houses with swiming pool in a district like Melville, green and clean. 

Museums full of images and texts on this mythical person Nelson Mandela, museums full with this Apartheid story, having lasted for about 50 years. 

The Newton MuseumAfrica is without any doubt most worth while to visit. A lot of history, a lot about Apartheid and Mandela, presented in a modern way. I enjoyed the department of cartoons. There I found out that South Africans are capable to mock themselves. Isn't this the beginning of all wisdom? 

In the books it is said that black people have the political power and white people have the economic one. High time for the black people to discover and use their own power. 

Over and out. 

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