The Apartheid museum is located in Gold Reef City in Jozi. Gold Reef City appears to be one of those mini amusement park style entertainment complex. Why the museum is here escapes me. It’s still a powerful experience (you enter by self-identifying yourself by color (optional…but I went through the nie-blankes (non whites) door), and a little unsettling spatially as you must go through each area in order to move through the exhibit and get to the end. I made so many wrong turns and felt like I had no control (probably intentional). There is a beautiful outdoor reflection area at the end as well as a cafe and small gift shop. No cameras were permitted inside the museum:
After the museum we checked into our hotel in Sandton (Jozi suburb). The Sandton Garden City (very upmarket Holiday Inn) is directly across from the Sandton Shopping Centre, a mega sized upscale mall (that seemed to go around and around instead of straight up and down) with a library. I was hoping to take a look but I was wrapped up trying to find the post office to mail back my IFLA stuff and the super heavy voltage converter (which worked and didn’t fry my hair the one time I used) and blowdryer. Should arrive in the States ten days after me. There was another group dinner, but I’d had enough time on the bus and couldn’t take one more trip on it or a buffet meal. Ended up having dinner with J and R , the other two amigos who didn’t get to go to the primary school. Had a stingily prepared (should have gotten a double) Sapphire Gimlet and gnocchi with pesto and was introduced to this game where you pick three male celebrities (can be any variety of celebrity) and you have decide which one you’d kill, which one you’d marry and which one you’d sleep with. As you might imagine, it quickly turned into a giggly meal. At various points I had Mini Me, the black little person from Bad Santa (because I was not believed when I said I hadn’t seen Bad Santa), Gary Coleman, or R Kelly. I was much more generous with my new friends…
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