If you know me, you now have two degrees of separation from Nelson Mandela. During my visit to South Africa, I met two people who were close to him till his last days. Outside my hotel in Cape Town, a friendly man came to see me. If I had passed him on the street, I […]

What does your mind envision at the mention of Cape Town, South Africa? Perhaps you see flashes of Cape Town’s tumultuous history. Remnants of the apartheid, a system of racial segregation from 1948 to 1994, loom heavily over this beautiful city. There remain visible reminders of the painful class system, displaced persons and civil unrest. […]