Driving in Africa

 This picture if you enlarge you can see two guys going to work sitting in the back of a truck holding the ladder on.  You see this all the time you can have up to 15 people in the back of a truck, even on the freeway's.

 This is what they use for their taxi's - they have no driving rules, they stop and start wherever they want, they let people off in the middle of the street.  They will pull right out in front of you, and they are always loaded, with hundreds of them on the roads.

This is a picture of several men on their way to work as I said above.

Pictures of our first flat

 This is a picture of the back, notice the bars on the door they lock, this is the usual scene

 This is the back yard, if you are able to enlarge the picture you will see the fence behind the wooden fence has barbed wire.

 Here you an see the guard tower in the background

 Here is a picture of the front door, again the locking bar door

 This is the car we were currently using had to give it up for a time to the Elders whose car went in for a major overhaul, we are using a van at this time.  The ground floor flat is ours, you can only see the one window.

 As we came into the apartment complex this was the round-about that we went around to get to our flat.  You will notice the guard gate in the background you can't get in or out without swiping your tag (security).

This is the public area, it has a pool, as most complexes do, this one has several Brie's (charcoal or wood BBQ's).  This man was cooking his Sunday dinner.

You see strange things here. This man is sewing on the side of the street with a hand machine.

Street Hockers walking down the middle of two lanes of traffic at congested intersections.

Standing in the Mall

Chapel at the Mamelodi branch and below is the parking out front

Below is the wall of the school where the Mamelodi Branch is held

Our first Sunday in the Mamelodi Branch

 

 

Standing in front of the new Mission Office



Street names were US states all around this area

Pictures from Elonda B&B.   We were there for the first 6 nights in Africa, the breakfasts were delicious.

Plane in SLC before we boarded to Atlanta