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.