Re: [xmca] BBC South Africa Correspondent on ethnic/language mixing and more

[Carol Macdonald <carolmacdon@gmail.com>]

Mike
We also have people on Tuesdays in our neighbourhood who come and scratch in
our dust bins for things that don't belong to one category. [And now we have
bags for different categories]  Then we also have our "Ronnie bags" out the
same day--waste paper recycling, and this has dismayed the guys who used to
collect just paper--after all we have taken away some of the livelihood.
And then most astonishing of all: either with a supermarket trolley as the
base or a flat trolley with a massive handle, men with massive loads of
cardboard walking in the road because the side-walks are not smooth enough.
They take nearly a lane of traffic, so we pass them respectfully. How they
can push/pull such loads I can scarcely imagine. And then, in my road out of
three in the corner of our suburb, we have a horse and cart, sometimes two
horses who come and take garden rubbish to the local dump.  The man in
change has eight horses, they all live at the horse shelter (SPCA) in
Soweto, so they are reasonably well kept. When they stop at my house, I
always give the horse apples.But none of these guys is an artist like Solly.
I bet there ain't no city like Johannesburg.
Carol

On 2 October 2010 04:59, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:

> I heard part of this driving in the car today and it seemed relevant to
> xmca
> of philes, be
> they South African or not!
> mike
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