Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Mamelodi

July 10, 2008
Today, I went with the Boston group to the University of Pretoria's Mamelodi Campus. It is a satellite campus with only a few hundred students. On the way there (in fact, right outside the gates of the school) we passed the largest squatter camp in Pretoria - it was just miles and miles of cardboard and tin shacks all smashed together. Just look at these pictures, and contrast the shacks to the University next to it. They are literally across the street from each other.

See the mountain range in the back of these photos? You can't exactly tell with the photos at this quality, but the shacks extend up onto the base of the mountain without intermission.