“Slow down, you move too fast
You got to make the morning last,
Just kicking down the cobblestones
Looking for fun and feelin’ groovy…
Got no deeds to do
No promises to keep.
I’m dappled and drowsy and ready for sleep.
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me.
Life, I love you,
All is groovy.”
Paul Simon got it right… and something made me dig into my unconscious for those words (59th Street Bridge Song) while sitting at a sidewalk caffe’ in Rome stressing out about the lack of a good Wifi connection.
esburg and Cape Town for work and townships, like Khayelitsha, were established to house them. Soweto, in Johannesburg, with 1.3 million residents is probably the most infamous of these slums, but Khayelitsha is the largest one in Cape Town and home to roughly 500,000. With the end of the pass laws and apartheid, women began coming to the townships, families were established, and children raised there.
