Where is the City Centre? The second question travelers arriving at Liz at Lancaster from Europe and the US often ask me is: ‘Where is the city centre’? (The first question is ‘Is there wi-fi?’) This first question is easy to answer – ‘Yes and it’s FAST!’ But the second question is not so easy […]
Read More »Following the prisoner with garlands of flowers He must have cut a strange figure. A small man in prison clothing surrounded by prison warders (having arrived by train from a Volksrust prison) being walked from Park Station to the Old Fort in Braamfontein. This vignette was made all the more unusual because of a following […]
Read More »Satyagraha Guesthouse: Beautifully restored house where Gandhi spent time when in Johannesburg Ghandi’s philosphy of Satyagraha (non-violent non-cooperation) was born in South Africa and more specifically in what was then the Transvaal, in the first decade of the 20th Century. Ghandi arrived in Johannesburg in 1893 and stayed at various places during the 12 years he […]
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