Abalimi Bezekhaya - Township Urban Micro-Farming
This year's visit to the townships of Khayelitsha and Nyanga was radically different from the last one. A year ago, we had been on the purely touristic track at the very knowledgable hands of our friend Thabang.
A micro-farm in Nyanga
This time, guided by an insider of a different background - Rob Small, activist at heart and micro-agriculturist - we visited various outposts of Harvest of Hope and the Abalimi Bezekhaya organization, which describes itself as follows:"... We are an urban agriculture (UA) and environmental action (EA) association operating in the socio-economically neglected townships of Khayelitsha, Nyanga and surrounding areas on the Cape Flats near Cape Town, South Africa.Abalimi means: 'the Planters' in Xhosa, the predominant language among our target community. We assist individuals, groups and community based organisations to initiate and maintain permanent organic food growing and nature conservation projects as the basis for sustainable lifestyles, self-help job creation, poverty alleviation and environmental renewal."There is a lot to say about the brilliant efforts of Rob and his peers, and I am one of the least qualified to do so. Marie has posted extensively about them on 66 Square Feet and I encourage everyone to read that, as well as visiting
Cape Town's Cape Malay Quarter
As Marie and I are flying back from South Africa to New York via Dubai, here's a symphony of Cape Malay colors from a very unique part of Cape Town. More South Africa posts will follow, as soon as we have landed in the U.S., recovered from our flights, gotten re-acquainted with a black cat with an attitude and whipped up our broadband internet connection into action to make up for Constantia's 386 kbps intermittent ADSL.
Cape Town's Cape Malay Quarters
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