Easter in South Africa

Easter is upon us here in South Africa. It means different things for different people. If you are religious person then you go to church normally on Good Friday and then again on Easter Sunday. If you aren’t then you go worship the sun god by going to the beach and getting burnt!

Different churches do different things, for instance the Zionish church of South Africa hold a big conference up in Mpumalanga making it an all weekend event and hundreds of people from all over Southern Africa attend. Our church has a Good Friday service and then on Sunday meet down at the beach and use the ‘Splash Festival’ venue for an open air service after which they have baptisms in the sea . After which everyone goes down to the beach and makes a ‘skottle’ breakfast and this becomes a family event sharing with friends. While the mainline churches will have services on both days in their respective venues.

The Splash Festival in Port Elizabeth is an annual event hosted by the city and features sorts activities and different types of music to cater to the crowds that go there. There are also the stalls that sell everything under the sun and then some more!

Autumn Has Arrived and So The Leaks as Well!

Autumn has arrived with the first good rain of the season. The block of flats I live in leaks like a sieve and so we run with towels and buckets to catch all the water coming through the walls and ceiling! We don’t complain too loudly as the rents are absurdly low and so we put up with all the drips. The weather has become cooler now as the first hint of winter peeks around the corner. Already snow has been reported on some mountains to the south west of our city. I predict that the winter this year will be colder than last year as it seems that each winter gets colder and summer hotter!

driving rain

Squalls come through every hour so when you just think the rain is over the next one arrives catching you off guard. The sun is out but to the north of the city it is pelting down. Each part of the city gets it’s own share of the rain at different times. Now the dams will fill up again as with the drought we’ve had they have been getting depleted.

raining today

We lie in the southern part of South Africa and in between two demographics so we tend to get some summer rainfall which is mostly from the northern subtropical region of Kwazulu-Natal and the winter rainfall of the Western Cape which lies to the west of Port Elizabeth, my city.