Life in a taxi

 Picking up on the last entry about Dan’s and my welcome back to South African taxi life, here’s a bit more on this peculiar (to westerners) mode of transport that’s a necessary fact of life for so many South Africans, as seen through my sociologist lens… If you’ve never been to a third world country,…

All of South Africa in one taxi

Mid-morning on Saturday, the day after we arrived back in Cape Town, we needed to get from our temporary accommodation to where Puggy (our old, little Toyota) was stored by a dear friend. So, we did the natural thing and took a taxi – not a cab-type taxi, a minibus taxi. We stood by the…