Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Oudekraal Beach

Our first trip to the ocean, Linda Fortune continued to tell us about the displacement of Coloured people during apartheid. The caves of this beach used to serve as Coloured people's summer vacation homes, until apartheid mandated almost all beaches as "Whites only". Now, Linda is working on memoralizing the history of this beach, with plaques about the people who lived in each cave.
A page of my journal decorated with seaweed and shells from the beach, "ulwandle" in Xhosa.