Cape Town Reading history as a boy, it was hard not to be moved by the stories of the ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the bottom of Africa and then heading off to the Indian Ocean and yet more adventures in the days when spices from the Far East were worth more than …

Cape Town Earlier in the Organizers’ Forum visit in South Africa we had started in a church in Orange Farm outside of Johannesburg that was ministered by one of the national leaders South Africa’s CBCO — Church Based Community Organizations.  Now in Cape Town we met one the Cape Town lead organizer, Deborah , and some …

Cape Town In a country where the government concedes nearly 29% “official” unemployment and the argument rages over how to count disillusioned job seekers as they fall off the charts, no one seriously disputes the fact that unemployment is likely at least 40%.  In the world of numbers that means that in lower income areas a …