Freedom
I have long imagined travelling to South Africa, inspired by the life of Nelson Mandela and his Long Walk to Freedom, the courage of Steve Biko (Cry Freedom), and the novels of Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, “the facts are always less than what really happened.” So, after much imagining, on August 28 I found myself standing atop Cap Point in the wind and rain watching the waves crash over the remains of a shipwreck far below. In 1488, when the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa, he aptly named it the Cape of Storms, later renamed the Cape of Good Hope. Who could have imagined the existence of a sea route to India and the East? Read More »