South Africa at last...
The final leg of the tour has arrived and here I am in Cape Town, South Africa. This is the place of my birth and where I grew up and lived for many years of my life and this is the place I first got beaten up in the streets during the Apartheid era, when I launched my Puns en Doedie (Puppets Against Apartheid) in the early nineteen-eighties. But that was and this is now... Tomorrow I am visiting the District Six Museum in Cape Town, which forms the remnants of the Cape Coloured Community's destroyed housing estate during Apartheid days. In 1966, it was declared a white area and all its inhabitants were relocated to the Cape Flats, out in the distant townships surrounding Cape Town. I am planning to donate my old Puns en Doedie puppets, which are all still in Johannesburg, to the museum, together with a film of the performances in the eighties! So this is where I will be for the next few weeks, to enjoy summer and catch up with the theatre and television scene in this distant part of the galaxy. Will keep you updated!
The final leg of the tour has arrived and here I am in Cape Town, South Africa. This is the place of my birth and where I grew up and lived for many years of my life and this is the place I first got beaten up in the streets during the Apartheid era, when I launched my Puns en Doedie (Puppets Against Apartheid) in the early nineteen-eighties. But that was and this is now... Tomorrow I am visiting the District Six Museum in Cape Town, which forms the remnants of the Cape Coloured Community's destroyed housing estate during Apartheid days. In 1966, it was declared a white area and all its inhabitants were relocated to the Cape Flats, out in the distant townships surrounding Cape Town. I am planning to donate my old Puns en Doedie puppets, which are all still in Johannesburg, to the museum, together with a film of the performances in the eighties! So this is where I will be for the next few weeks, to enjoy summer and catch up with the theatre and television scene in this distant part of the galaxy. Will keep you updated!
