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Awakening Over Angola and TV Monitor Plane Path over Namibia, Botswana and Down to
Johannesburg, Brings Back Memories:
I awoke and looked up at the TV screen showing our flight path over south western Angola.
There were a few lights where there were passengers reading. The pattern of passengers over
the years has changed. Twenty years ago, the passengers were largely South Africans seeking
new places to live, returning from job hunting, and not that many tourists. One and half million
people left officially in the decade after 1994 when the ANC took over. On this flight tourists
make up probably three quarters: families on trips with excited young children; eco-tourists
dressed appropriately but often with leather shoes and bangles from cattle although they maybe
claim to be vegans; church “mission trips” with group T-shirts but little knowledge of the
missionaries that spent a life time of commitment, starting with luminaries like Robert Moffat
on the Botswana border, his son in law David Livingstone further to the north, Hans Schreuder
among the Zulus, the Wilsons among Mzilikazi's followers that now live at Bulawayo, and
many others; and hunters dressed in khaki fatigues (one looks very overweight, his face flushed
from too much alcohol, his companion puffing from the high altitude cabin pressure and his
face showing the mask of a heavy smoker— they'll not be hiking much). There are also
businessmen with laptops working away and a middle aged woman whose face is stained with
tears. Her sunspots, hair style and clothes give her away as an expatriate South African,
probably returning for some family tragedy or death. And then there are the new African
nouveau rich politicians returning from Washington DC, dressed smartly in South African
clothes, their wives in colorful dresses adopted from Nigerian fashions, wearing designer
“amafastela” (glasses, meaning in Nguni “windows”).
Angola and Namibia:
The plane token crawls across Angola headed towards Namibia, previously called 'South
West Africa' under South African rule and 'German South West Africa' before WW1.
Memories and emotions about the era come back.
Angola went through a bloody civil war from 1975 till 2002 during which half a million to
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