Today we were joined by the team that went to Durban so that we were one again a whole big group for the first time since Joburg. They were all very weary and tired from the long coach trip from Durban, but a quick walk to District 6 got the blood rushing and they were soon awake.
At the District 6 museum, we were given a tour by an original member of this remarkable community that existed during the height of the Apartheid regime. He told us about how this very diverse community of people from all sorts of backgrounds and races lived together in harmony regardless of the colour of their skin, their race, religion or beliefs, even when the government was trying its hardest to separate people. District 6 stood up against the Apartheid regime and proved that we can all live together as one, and showed us a real example of Ubuntu.
After our tour of District 6, we then took a rather bumpy ferry ride to Robben Island. As some of you may know, Robben Island was the place where the Apartheid regime kept its political prisoners and was where the likes of Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma were imprisoned. What people don't know was that Robben Island was also the place where the mainland sent lepers a century or more ago, but was a place of imprisonment for over 3 centuries. We were very moved by an ex-prisoner who took us on a tour of particularly the prison, and seeing the place through his eyes.
We finally returned to the Grasmere Educentre where we are staying and helped the guys from Durban settle in.
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