Heading west past Roland, you'll run into Somerset West. A beautiful city on a mountain overlooking False Bay is Somerset West in the Hottentot mountain range. Carla's meetings started at nine this morning so we were off right after dropping Henry off at school. This was the nicest hospice I had seen so far which makes sense since this is a very wealthy region. They also had a very nice garden on the grounds, with a big selection of roses.

Here is an article from today's Cape Times newspaper.

"City's housing crisis spirals" -Aziz Hartley

Cape Town is a city where hundreds of thousands of people do not have proper homes and little prospect of getting them, the Western Cape government says.

They are young, unemployed and poor, and the situation is becoming worse by the year; according to the province's housing plan, presented to the legislature's portfolio housing committee yesterday.

Even if R1 billion were spent building homes each year, it would take 27 years to meet the need for formal housing. 79% of applicants earned less than R1500 a month and 18% between R1500 and R3500.

We see the issues every time we drive on the freeways, shack upon shack…it would be unbelievable if we didn't see it ourselves.

On a lighter note, the world cup of cricket is underway in the Bahamas (I think) and that has people very excited since South Africa is a very strong team and is one of the favourites.