South Africa
Once upon a time Europeans came to this place calling it the cape of good hope ! - the fairest of capes- and with their first sight they invoked the scripture in this most uncertain time
- “ the lord preparers a table in front of my enemies! “Psalm 23
From Bartholomew Dias in 1488- the Portuguese explorer who came here in the 15th century but landed in Mossel Bay - the first chapel in Southern Africa to Jan Van Riebek the Dutch forerunner of the modern Afrikaner people in 1652- to the immigrants who first landed here in the union castle lines that also dropped off people in Australia - so many souls have come through here on the way to India and beyond - and all have stood upon that day and seen the greatest wonder of Southern Africa - table mountain !
It was here that I first came as a baby in 1964 and later as a grown man I left to the Caribbean aboard the polish yacht the Czarny Diament escaping apartheid South Africa and the army that had called me up for service - it has never ceased to amaze me despite all The time that has gone by - Cape Town remains the mother city of South Africa amid all its horror and its beauty - a place I spent some years as a boy running up the maintain ranges of hottentot Holland and discovering the secrets of the most incredible rains and flora my eyes have ever seen - from the red river of the rooielse where as a scout I discovered an unexploded missile in the beach as a sea about or witnessed the largest ever great white landed on the strand of false bay - this region had never ceased to catch my breathe and thank god for being able to see it with my own eyes !
As our journey through this incredible continent this undiscovered contingent continues i want to say this - this land is not for the faint hearted. Not fools .
On the 29 th may I cast my vote to make my voice heard- and to my great surprise - it was ! The ruling regime that has screwed up our country since 1999 with rampant corruption and nepotism has finally lost its majority and now there’s some hope that the nation will repair itself ! But this is Africa - we have to be cautiously optimistic since these thieves are still in power - just they don’t have so much of it now - I predicted 42 % but they got 40 in the end and rather than stick with their communist buddies they chose sanity with the democratic alliance - not everyone is terrible !
I’ll write more about these elections in another blog - but there is hope now in South Africa thanks God !
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