“In South Africa today, 51% of the youth (18 to 24-year old) are unemployed; but the literacy rate in adults is 94%. How does that bode for tomorrow?”

We reach the school late. Monday morning traffic, from Rosebank to Soweto, is no different from the bedlam on the Cross-Bronx Expressway.  The weather was terrific. Sunday’s rain left behind a blue and bright skied Monday.  In a way, it was a sad farewell gift from South Africa.

 

In Soweto, more than 400 schools assure the education of more than half-a-million children. Not long ago, Trevor Noah was one of them. Most of these kids are orphaned or have unemployed parents. The work at hand is as noble as it is titanic. While dedication abounds, books and materials are scarce. Therefore, each traveler pledged to donate one backpack full of school items to kids of Molemo. One physician brought no less than four backpacks.

 

O surprise!  On the school yard, dozens of kids, in row, were waiting for the group. They had a show in store.  They delivered a dance recital that told much of their inherent talent. The travelers were later equally divided between the classrooms.

They answered questions from the children about America; they articulated to them their promise in the future: stay in school. Children and teachers received the gifts with poignant emotion. Some travelers added a bill of $100 to their loaded backpack.

 

This trip to Molemo illustrates how much separates an average American to those who have nothing. It also elucidates that a gesture is never too small to make a heart fonder. Crops from one’s table may be wealth to many. We need a more productive North-South dialogue.

 

………..

On the way to the Apartheid Museum, the bus drove by the scene of a major car accident. The blue hatchback lay on its side, totaled. Its carcass and the macadam were splashed with reddish blood. The driver did not survive the clear and warm Monday morning.

 

The entrance ticket to the Apartheid Museum will assign you to either the white or the non-white entrance; separate but equal. Then you will have the opportunity to walk through no less than 32 stations that tell the story of apartheid, from the arrival of the first Europeans on South African soil, to the National Bill of the Rights and the new constitution.  Today’s South Africa belongs to every South African, it no longer offers separate entrance.

Farewell lunch was held at Moyo Zoo Lake.  What menu were we served?  Esibayeni or Makulu? Never mind.  It was ethnic and exquisite.

A the Crowne Plaza, late check-out travelers had one short hour to finish packing, close their account at the front desk, and load their luggage.  At 18:00 we got off the bus, at the airport. We hugged and tipped the guides and drivers who took us around in a trek that lasted one long and full week in the Rainbow Nation.

Our flight was to leave in three hours. New York was half-a-world away.

(The Traveller, Tuesday, October 10, 2017)

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