Heading for Kenya, the final destination 3.30am came to soon (not soon enough for Annabel who woke up at 2am), but we were out of the apartment and in the car just before 4am to drive to Cape Town International for our 6.20am flight to Johannesburg en route to Nairobi. Berk did a reasonable job of directing us, and on the way to the airport we drove past another expansive township - this time in the dark, so you could see how sparse the distribution of electric light was (and, presumably, electricity per se). Another slight digression here - something we haven’t touched on yet is the presence of the so-called ‘informal settlements’ or townships outside most major towns in South Africa. The areas and environments that we passed through or were exposed to in South
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