I visited South Africa with my two sons, Adam and Morgan, years ago during the time of “the troubles” and fell in love with the spectacular beauty and the wonderful people of the country. I was asked by a local hospital in Elim, a place in the Northern Transvaal, to do a three-day event called “The Battle of the Races.”
Prior to the event, Stephen Tischauser, a Swiss doctor doing an internship in SA, gave us a cook’s tour of the township of Elim. We saw people cooking over smoky fires in huts and children dressed in no better than rags. But what impacted my sons and I the most was a visit to a local school where we saw children who stood along the white bungalows with thatched roofs dressed in English school uniforms—white shirts, striped tie, short pants. Everyone was so friendly to us.
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