I'm having difficulty accessing the Internet at my current hotel. When I can, I'll add pictures to Love Life post and post a blog on today's activities in Durban, South Africa where I met with representatives from the KwaMuhle Museum (about Apartheid and the race passes required in the Durban area), the building of the first black school by blacks for blacks (Dr. Dube), the Black townships of KwaMusha and Inanda, the area in Durban from where blacks were forcibly evicted - Cooperstown (sp?), the process of delousing of black male workers coming into Durban, the affluent mixed Durban High School, and the Ashram started by Mohatma Gandhi, when he lived in South Africa, called the Phoenix Settlement.
The question, however, centers around the prisin in Jo'bg on Constitution Hill. No, since the end of Apartheid, 1993-1994, prison conditions involving human rights have improved to the point where prisoners are not forced to strip in an open courtyard in public. Also, prisons are now integrated. After Apartheid, some of the prisoners at Constitution Hill were released if they had been interned because of political reasons. If they had committed crimes, they were relocated to other working prisons. The Constitution Hill Prison is now just a museum.
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