Today we hung out with Angus, a Jozi local who happens to a workmate of Rosco’s back in Welly, he is over here to see his family and some footie. It was a fun day out getting a local’s take on the place, he drove us through Hillbrow, which is the badlands in downtown Jozi, still considered to be a dangerous place even during the day.
Since we hadn’t drunk enough on tour, we then went on a brewery tour at SA Brewery, it was an impressive tour though it took itself a bit seriously almost comparing the brewing of beer as one of the key parts in the creation and development of mankind, something we found hilarious! Drinking the traditional African home brew was interesting too, can’t remember the proper African name, but it’s also known as “shake shake”.
I had been mentioning to Angus that I could not find a NZ makarapa (supporters had made from a hard hat), and lo and behold he said he had seen them at the fan fest across the road from the brewery, so off we toddled and Rosco and I scored one each at half price, as shown in the pic below at Soccer City. We also had another interview with tv there, this time with some Mexican telly guys asking us about World Cup keepers, I blew it by talking up the Ghana keeper when I meant the Nigerian one…racist! Rosco sang Pastons praises.
Next stop was for a bit of culture and the Apartheid Museum, and interesting look into the development, resistance and eventual demise of the regime. The museum is really well set out and tells the story well. Well worth the visit.
Was a god day cruising around with Angus, getting the local’s perspective and getting introduced to some local kai and lingo.
That night was our one and only visit to Soccer City, the 90,000 seat stadium that will host the final, to watch Ghana play Germany. The arena is huge and very very impressive, it was a great to be there in spite of the game which was pretty uninspiring but did feature a cracking goal by ze Germans, who won 1-0. Quiet night, big game tomorrow!
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