My name is Mike, my last name is Zuma. This is my neck of the woods here in Cape Town:
It's known as Langa, one of the oldest black African townships in the Western Cape.
The beautiful street of Lerotholi, with the gallery 16 on Lerotholi behind me.
Normally this area would be filled with guests, with people.
However with the COVID-19 situation it is currently dry and drab.
But I gonna take you a little bit of the city, at my favorite spots in the city of Cape Town
and show you my neck of the woods.
We're in the City Center, on Long Street
which is pretty much a vibrant part of Cape Town’s central business district.
But what makes it special is that it's the funky bit. It's where all the clubs are.
Your 18 – 35s come and play here - the urbanites. After work Cape Towners generally grab a beer here.
We are at the Company Gardens, just on the right hand side.
On an average day this place would be filled with tourists and locals alike,
that take a day break out of the hectic city and buzz in the city and just catch a breath within this majestic gardens.
People generally come and feed squirrels in here.
As you can see pigeons and Egyptian geese in and around here.
We are now on the gateway to Table Mountain Aerial Cableway.
Of course, this is also been closed.
Even from here it is an amazing view of the city. So it's pretty much a blessed spot in the City Center.
The Waterfront, it's a mall. In fact, the best kept secret about it: it's still a working dockyard.
It's one of Southern Africa’s oldest working dockyards.
So this is where we catch the ferry to the island.
Robben Island used to be a place where political prisoners stayed.
Older statesman Nelson Mandela spent a couple of years there.
So it was quite a pivotal point for me growing up as a young teenager of 13 and 14, when Mandela was freed
to post 1994, where we kind of got freedom. I wasn’t eligible enough to vote. I wasn’t kind of 18 years old.
But kind of I saw the queues of people – certainly non-whites: blacks, colored, Indians and alike –
for the first time having the chance to put an x on a ballot paper.
That was quite a momentous occasion in the history of South Africa.
Even though apartheid fell off in 1990 and we voted in 1994,
you're not going to take the income inequality of this city’s devide away in 25 years.
It'll probably take a generation or two to undo that.
This is where they classified people on wether you are black, you are white you are colored, you are Indian.
So this is the non-whites only bench.
And this is the whites only bench. I can now sit here!
Ok, folks. We've done wrapping up in the City Center of Cape Town CBD.
Now we're back in my neck of the woods in Langa and are going to Mzanzi Restaurant,
where I normally serve people dinners in the evening.
Once again due to the Covid-19 situation this place is a dead spot.
About 99 percent of the patrons that come to this restaurant are international guests.
Hopefully once the scourge is over we will have you wining and dining with us
here in Mzanzi restaurant in beautiful Cape Town, in my neck of the woods, and have fun with us!