Posted on 01/28/2015 12:37:36 PM PST by Osage Orange
In the sparsely populated Karoo desert in the heart of South Africa's Northern Cape, the spirit of apartheid lives on.
I spent a few days in Orania, a town established in 1991 where no black people live.
I was part of a BBC crew, including Zimbabwean journalist Stanley Kwenda, who were accredited to visit.
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I did enjoy the wedding very much, actually. Little hippy-dippy for me, but they were professors, so it was to be expected.
I enjoyed a bit of sailing, but was happy to get into my plane (I am a pilot) and fly back. Much more comfortable in the air, even though they make you fly around the island so the people on the ground don’t hear airplane engine noise (past Tukernut (?) then about a mile offshore, then come in from the Atlantic side).
I feel for you...my FRiend.
I’m safe. I live in the South and I’m armed. LOL!
I'm not sure about whiter. After all they do have Oak Bluffs and there's a lot of money there. But they sure are LIBERAL on Martha's Vineyard. Much more so than Nantucket.
I lost all my gun's...sadly in a tornado. But I survived....
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