My wife and I were met at the airport by Andrew from Liziwe’s, spent one night in Room 3 of the guesthouse, and then given a private tour of Gugulethu and the Cape Peninsula before being dropped off at our longer-term accommodations in the Bo Kaap. We felt like we could ask him any questions we wanted to (and we did, hundreds of them)! He really loves his job and it shows. Andrew gave us new insights into the townships, helped us understand life there in a non-condescending and realistic, yet optimistic way. An example is having Danwe, a young man from the community, working and learning along side him, apprenticing to become a tour guide (Danwe is an excellent young man and will be great at it!). He is very concerned about giving back to the community and helping to develop it in way that has integrity. At first we were really wondering what we had gotten ourselves into, a white guy in the townships? But Andrew actually is one of only three white people living in Gugulethu and is such a decent person, he obviously won over the community. He started with a background of South Africa & its complicated history, in the manner of a great storyteller. We wanted to end our two week trip to South Africa with a township tour, and we had the great fortune to find Andrew to take us! He made the whole thing very easy, from the initial prompt response to our inquiry (and it was a very last minute thing!), to the great instructions he gave us for driving ourselves there, to making sure we got to Mzolis' restaurant, and then to the airport on time.
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