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Presenters: Justine Shapiro and
Sami Sabiti
Justine Shapiro and Sami Sabiti return to South Africa
to see how much the rainbow nation has changed in the
decade since the end of apartheid. They start their
journey in beautiful Cape Town where
they explore the beaches and its gay district before
heading to Robben Island, where Nelson
Mandela was imprisoned, and experiencing a healing sangoma
ceremony in a black township on the city's outskirts.
East of the city, Sami samples the wines of the Stellenbosch,
while Justine visits an ostrich farm and attempts to
ride one. In central South Africa, Sami descends into
the diamond mines of Kimberley, while
back on the coast, Justine experiences the extreme Hindu
festival of Kavadi in Durban
which is home to South Africa's Indian and Pakistani
population. |
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Justine Shapiro rides an Ostrich in Western Cape,
South Africa
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Sami Sabiti dances with the Gumboot Miners at Gold
Reef Mine, Jo'burg
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Sami heads far north to Thohoyandou
where he hooks up with the Venda people who are renowned
as the country's most skillful artists. He helps them
paint their huts and make their drums while Justine
takes a safari in what's probably the most famous game
reserve in the world - Kruger National Park
- home to the biggest variety of animals in Africa.
They reconvene in Johannesburg where
Sami meets Winnie Mabaso who runs a kitchen for AIDS
orphans and provides care for her local community. Then it's off to the Gumboots Miners'
dance at the Gold Reef Mine and visiting the Apartheid
Museum, a lasting monument to the new South
Africa. They finish their journey in the Soweto township which is home to the only street in the world
that two Nobel Prize winners lived on; they visit a
shebeen (drink joint) and Justine visits the nanny she
had as a child growing up in South Africa. |
