Surprisingly out of all of the minibus taxi's in Cape Town, we have already managed to hop on the same one twice--of which Cydney obviously made friends with the driver.
While Cydney was joking with the driver, he asked where she was from, and he was SO excited to hear that we were from the states. We have received a lot of praise towards Obama from the people of South Africa, but this man was not phased that we lived in DC with Obama. He wanted to meet Oprah!! He would not stop talking about how much he wanted to meet Oprah--and I'm not surprised. Our B&B has no more than 3 television channels, and whenever it is on, it always seems to either be the news or the Oprah show.
Our driver went on to say that Mandela has a lot of cousins running around Cape Town, and started pointing out about every man on the street--at this point he was getting a little ridiculous.
The second time we were on the same the same minibus taxi, Cyndey starts talking to the driver again, and he again starts to praise Oprah. At some point he begins talking about Jacob Zuma, (the current President of SA), and makes a comment "well now that Zuma is president, rape is legal." Although the intension of the comment was to be a joke, it made the entire van slightly uncomfortable, but Lisa helped to ease the situation by jokingly saying, "okay driver, I think we will get out now!" Oh minibus taxi.
(For those unaware of South African politics, Zuma was brought to court but found not guilty of rape charges. Zuma did not deny that he had sex with her, but made the case that because she was wearing a skirt, it was "his duty" as a member of the Zulu clan. Zuma stated, "In Zulu culture, you cannot just leave a woman if she is ready." The woman also was known to be HIV-positive, and after choosing not to use a condom, Zuma "took a shower afterwards" in order to reduce his chance of getting AIDS. Disgusting.)
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