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Minister Trevor Manuel

Today during our Strategic Management class we went to a presentation by Minister Trevor Manuel, who is a minister in the Presidency in charge of the National Planning Commission. For information follow this link to wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Manuel. Mr. Trevor Manuel is indeed a very inspiring person, who is among the few people in government in South Africa who has not had a corruption case against him. The video below was an introduction prior to the Minister's presentation, it is very interesting.

So after this I have been quite curious about what the National Planning Commission is and what they are doing. I was clicking around on youtube, and found this video, which explains many interesting things in a way which is not a long boring document, so if South Africa interests you, this will as well:

Somerset West

Today Camilla, Alex, Anni and I went with a minibus taxi to Somerset West to have picknick on the beach. It was an interesting tour, which went through Somerset West then through a nearby township to Gordon's Bay where a concerned lady in the minibus asked us where we were planning to go realizing that we had gone too far! After a not planned "sightseeing trip" through the township the taxi driver went back and dropped us at the right place. By that time our homemade sandwiches was indeed needed, and we spend a couple of hours chilling in the sun eating sandwiches and cookies. It was our luck that the very same taxi driver picked us up again on our way back, so we managed to get back to Stellenbosch without any troubles except the fact that we were squeezed into the "max 15 persons"-taxi which carried a total of 18 adults and 1 child!!

Walk in the Park

   

It has been a very beautiful day. Here some photos from our walk in a small park in Stellenbosch. Loooove the mountains. We are going to hike them one day ;) And we saw tortoises! The one on the picture was actually quite big. Furthermore I learned the difference between tortoise and turtle. Apparently a tortoise lives on land, while a turtle lives in water. Interesting ;)

Rugby in the rain

Randomly I got a call from Anni to go and watch some Rugby training ;) - Rugby is quite fun! Except it was raining a lot, and we got all soaking wet. Afterwards I was invited to join Anni and her flatmates for some hot soup and wine :) - compliments to the chef! It was very nice.