I don't have a lot to add about JoBurg since entering the NICD compound. There are animals around the NICD for science-y stuff, so I see turkeys and geese when walking to work. When I was first getting a tour of the grounds, the woman told me "and over there are the stables" and I thought "aww, horsies" and then she continued "their blood is used in the labs." I haven't seen the sheep yet so one of my goals for the weekend is to find the sheeps.
I've been to the mall twice and it is like the mall in America, mostly. If anything, it is nicer than the malls I am used to going to.
There is a super market in the mall which is not something I have seen before, but makes sense (Or, hypermarket, as they call it). Why wouldn't you want to combine grocery shopping with mall shopping?
Here are some images of housing from the Soweto tour. In the first picture, the long, flat, grey structures to the right are the older housing, without electricity or running water. The colored houses to the left and foreground are the new houses, built by the government to get people out of the old, crappy housing. I think this was housing for miners. JoBurg had a lot of immigration for gold mining. That's part of why there is such a mixture of ethinicities here, like a large Indian population. The second picture is of informal housing we saw down the street a bit. You can see the port-a-potties they use as latrines to the left of the photo. There were some pigs running around these houses, I assume for eating.
Jeff
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