Day 15: ...A Side of Food For Thought
Day 15: Cape of Good Hope, South African Penguins, Shopping with A Side of Food For Thought
Sad to report...no safari. Only two of us ended up wanting to go on the safari, so instead as a group we
decided to go to Boulders Beach near Simon's
Town.
There we were able to see the African Penguin aka the Black-footed Penguin. They were all so cute however not-as-cuddly.
After our visit with the penguins, we headed over to the Cape of Good Hope, The Southern most point of continental Africa.
While at the Cape of Good hope, I remembered that my Aunt (in which whom I was very close to), who passed away from Leukemia in 2004 always wanted to come to South Africa. It is actually because of her influence in my life, that I so fully embraced the Pan-Africanist Philosophy and Afro-centered lifestyle. So, in her honor I took some of the ocean water and pebbles to bring to her grave, since she was never able to make it to South Africa.
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Later that afternoon...
We were able to go to Green Market Square. GMS is an outdoor arts and
crafts market place in which you can find many different kinds of artistic
souvenirs to decorate your home with or give gifts. I found so much that I am
going to create a haul video once I get home of all of the goodies that I was
able to buy in South Africa.
The one interesting thing that
I found out while in GMS was that the majority of the vendors were
"foreigners". Meaning, that most of them are African but born in
other countries and immigrated to South Africa for better economic opportunities. One vendor that I made the acquaintance of
told me that, "No South Africans would respectably work here, they get
better jobs." This got my mind to thinking about how Americans complain
about the immigrants from Central and South America, in which also claim that
they do the work that Americans no longer wish to do. This is very interesting as it jogged to
memory a point that Dr. Joseph B. Diescho brought up during his
lecture to us (and the NYU Study group).
His point was that the argument of illegal immigration within South
Africa always centered around the issue of immigrants from other southern
African nations rather than that of ones from European ancestry. Considering
the end to the apartheid rule, one would like to think that the South African
people would be much more tolerant toward other continental Africans, however
it seems as though exactly the opposite seems to be occurring. The most
memorable being in 2008 when "foreigners" were being violently targeted with
vigilante "justice" being dictated for their immigration to South
Africa. (Source, Source#2)
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