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Letter From The Eastern Cape
It is easy to forget that there are people whose lives don’t include cable television and shopping at malls. And that 11 years after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, South Africa might as well be in another solar system as far as most Americans are concerned.
These are among my motivations for publishing Letter From the Eastern Cape, a regular feature debuting today at my blog.
The author is Susan Winters Cook, a photojournalist and humanitarian who has lived in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa since 1997. The topics of Susan’s letters will be both weighty and mundane. Her first letter is the saga of a missing handbag and a good deed gone bad.
2 Responses to “Letter From The Eastern Cape”
Yes, very nice. Reminds me of, “Letters from America”, by Alistair Cook, that I used to listen to in Africa on the beeb. Only in this case it’s letter from Africa by Susan Cook.
I can understand her guilty feelings. She must know quit well that leaving valuable items around like that can cause a lot worse than dead puppies. It’s not uncommon to see a thief beaten to death by an angry mob.
A little long—like my own stuff—but nice and a much-needed change of pace here.
Thanks, and look forward to other Letters from the Cape