Why Cape Town Paradox...

by Alison
(Cape Town)

I thought this quote I read recently summed up parts of the Cape Town experience quite well.

" ... It's hard to imagine a city that makes Vancouver not good, but Cape Town makes it look like a modestly pretty city. Cape Town is so physically stunning...

... It's the most beautiful, saddest city in the world.

They're attempting to work out the problems, but the problems are so deep and the townships are immensely complicated.

A large number of people who sacrificed a lot to get apartheid pulled down now don't have the wherewithal to participate in South Africa as a First World country..."

This is a quote from Canadian author David Rotenberg, interviewed for NationalPost.com