WednesdayMarch7 Just retuned from tour of the Cape Flats area between Cape Town an d the Peninsula. Area o f sand dunes and scrub vegetaiotn mostly the Australianacacia trees. A small demonstration site is set aside by Cape Flats Nature Preserve to educate peoples of the area to importance of native shrubs and plants to the area. This is the most heavily settled area now housing over 250,000 peoplein 10 by10 tin shacks. Another 1000 arrive eachday. The government provides water and sewer and they movein. There are no jobs and little transport . Business spring up from hairdressers to tire repair shops and the people live on hope. They are destroying the dunes and when winter comes the wind and sea will flood all this area. The Nature Preserve employs some women in the reforestation programs. Some schools are being built but it a race against Hivaids. At the other extreme we touredthe Kirstenbosch B otanicalG ardens one of the most beautiful in the world. The gardens and planting are extenssive but it was difficult to leave the other images.