Cape Town!

Left Dana Bay Friday morning for Cape Town, with a couple of obligatory stops along the way –particularly the one to get the BEST roosterkoeks, which is a thick bread cooked over charcoal — ohso yummy! You can have them sweet or savory; mine was bacon and egg since it was still morning when we got there. On the radio, two announcers, a man and a woman, were reading the names of the girls and women who have been killed in SA this year. They would say the name and then a sentence about her: [name]. She was eight months pregnant. [name]. She was the tallest girl in her class. [Name} she was six years old. On and on it went, punctuated with poignant music. The day before, or maybe Wednesday or Tuesday, women marched on the parliament building in CT and the police responded with water cannons! The next day there was a picture in the Cape Times that showed a picture of a SEA of people demonstrating — it looked like absolutely every person in CT was there!
We’ve been to the Victioria and Albert waterfront, taken a city tour on the hop-on hop-off bus and had a wonderful lunch at the Winchester Hotel on the beach in Seapoint near where we are staying. Daniel, I had seafood bobootie, which none of us had ever heard of and it was incredibly delicious. Wee ate in a lovely, lovely patio garden. On Sunday, we met our friends, Jannie and Frieda, at the waterfront and had a lovely meal with them. Jannie is a teacher of 6th grade English and we’re going to his school’s concert on Wednesday evening.
Today, we went to the Zeitz museum of contemporary African art — an amazing facility in a renovated/repurposed concrete grain silo (much bigger than you could ever imagine). Zeitz is a German philanthropist who had been the chairman of PUMA and then Kuring; I forget his beginning. I believe he basically paid for the whole thing, but I could be wrong. He has loaned the museum a lot of stuff from his personal collection. There is a yearlong exhibit by William Kentridge that basically seems to take up most of the museum — two floors worth! I don’t know whether he is the most prolific artist in history or it’s his whole body of work. His work is about the colonization of Africa — very powerful, but overwhelming. Lots of mixed media, mostly film and music and the most astounding panoramic presentation that I guess is film, but not like you, or at least me, think of as film. One of his “films” is a “flip book”of a dictionary, with drawings and words laid over. He has the best words, a poet as well as a fine artist. Anyway, you should google him.
Tonight we’re going to make lemon chicken with capers and olives in our Instant Pot we bought. Gotta go find the recipe.
Museumed out, jm and lg