Sawbona and Molo from Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape! I am writing to you from the beach city of Port Elizabeth, South Africa's 5th largest city. People here talk about the "big five," and they mean animals (hippo, rhino, elephant, lion, and leopard), but on the Fulbright Hays we have a different "big five," that would be South Africa's top five cities, all of which we will visit on our tour. On Sunday we landed in Durban, a center of Indian culture in the province of KwaZulu Natal, or KZN. KZN, as you might imagine, is also the native homeland of the Zulu people and the province that is hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The realities of this are striking when you consider the following information we learned in our briefing from the eThekwini Department of
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