Leaving from Cairo to Johannesburg, we thought it was only for the weather that will make a change, yes the weather was more easy on us but all these cool people also took our life to a whole new level, Dirce and Million who picked us up at the airport at about 10 a.m, Florence Sipalla, Laurent Claval, and that Zimbabwean taxi guy Aleck, we say Danke in the Dutch way to all the personnel of IFAS, arriving at the Melville Guest house, we thought we were close to heaven not knowing that we won't even had the time to enjoy the heavens of the bed, in Jo’burg i experienced what it feels like to spend four months in four days, our day seems more than 24 hours, we never had a totally organized stay like that of Jo’burg, in four days we met all the most interesting people we needed for the documentary film, we made our three performances, we met with dancers of moving into dance, had the first interview with David April, we as well had the opportunity to visit the dance factory, had an evening of dance with that wonderful dancer, Lucky, meeting Lucky also gave us a wider idea of the art-face of South Africa from the mouth of a directly affected and that helped us a lot during our interviews.
As much as our days were packed up in Jo’burg, yet we didn’t miss out the JOZI night life with Tumi Morake, that wonderful, humour-full and beautiful lady filled with life, that night at the Horror café where the plenty Rastafarians were doing their thing, it was a fun night out to take us far from the chaos running through our heads. If we shall do this project again we would choose Johannesburg and spend much time to explore it, we had the impression that it was such a little time to explore. Before signing out of our visit to South Africa I must tell you of those beautiful humble individuals that was invited and showed up for our performances, even though it was not in theatre or other conventional venue, they came to share the natural flavour of the cold sun with us, either that of the Wits university or that of the Freedom square all the way in Soweto and also the last show at the mall at Rosebank, "we appreciate your presence, it springs up our energy and added light to our show"; Georgina Thompson, Adrienne Sichel, Selo Pessa (and your wonderful students), Moketsi koene (and that interesting photographer you sent down), Jasper who also made it possible for me to be part of a brain storming conference in Maputo, Melanie; that saviour of ours who made our happening at the Wits university possible, Kara, Mimi who was a wonderful companion and assistant, Peggy, Laurent Claval; the man behind the camera of our presence in Johannesburg, even though it was his Leave period from work yet he took time to come see us all the way in Soweto, Merci beaucoup Laurent, also Khulile Nxumalo and Retoepile Makanane who came all the way from SABC to Soweto to see us, we are grateful to you all, Seelan Naidoo the CEO of the National arts council of SA for the wonderful talk section we had with him. And finally to take us out of Jozi we give a special appreciation to Dirce who was the first to see us and also the last to leave us in Jo’burg.
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