Sunday 13 February 2011

Table Mountain and Inequality

Awesome day with Becca and Dom climbing the top of Table Mountain... yep climbed up and cable car down. Stunning Cape Town, breathless views, peaks of the table and beyond. Such a beautiful poignant place, its hot hot hot. Then catch up with N & D- fab!

So much to see and do in this complex cultural city... it is breathtaking. Of course the Cape is one of the richest places of SA,  amidst the beauty poverty stricken shanty towns and town ships surround the area where a different world exists- gangs, violence, crime and poor sanitation. Inequality is the highest in the world here... some choose to ignore this, some are frustrated. I will do the little I can in helping those with less.

This week lies ahead working in a private trauma clinic, prehospital experience with the paramedics gangland area and townships.. then back in GS government hospital. More paradigms... preparing for J'burg- every time I mention Bara hospital J'burg the response is a shocking 'ooh' apparently twenty times worse than the government hospital I'm currently in!  :-0

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