South Africa celebrates Youth Day on 16 June, commemorating the 1976 Soweto Uprising and the role that school children played in overturning apartheid. The raw emotion in the iconic photo from the events has special meaning for Tracy and me; we met Hector Pieterson’s sister during the 2005 interim course we led in South Africa. The movie Sarafina played on TV this evening.
The day is now a national holiday, and most everything is closed, including the shop at which Mark’s iPad is being repaired. (His device was damaged at the Sky Plus Hotel in Ghana, and we are getting around to repairing it just now.) So, he has to wait another day.
—Matt
