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South Africa:

Capetown


sa13.bmp (397818 bytes) The banner over the street reads "Gateway to Africa". Notice how often Table Mountain shows up in the background in these pictures.

Another shot of the city.

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sa15.bmp (512370 bytes) This is the famous Cape Town waterfront -- the most visited tourist attraction in all of Africa. Note the Planet Hollywood in the foreground. It was recently rebuilt after having been blown up with a bomb.
These are new gas pumps made to look antique, but I don't think gas pumps ever looked quite like that. I like to call this look "faux retro". sa16.bmp (184554 bytes)

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 This is painted on a wall outside of a backpackers' place where I stayed. Dolphins do not really go there.
There are many townships outside of Cape Town. From what I could see, it looks like conditions in such places have improved a lot in the last 10 years. sa18.bmp (541334 bytes)
sa10.bmp (376910 bytes) Old apartheid signs are now museum pieces. I think the white South Africans try to give the impression that apartheid occurred much farther back in time than it did.