African Safari Trip of a Lifetime | Joel S. Hirschhorn

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Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust

May 22, 2013

The most amazing thing I learned on my first safari trip in South Africa is that elephants have the most incredible, very long black eyelashes.

Second, lions could not care less about nearby trucks and people, nor lights at night.

Third, though giraffes seem to walk slow and gracefully, their legs are so long that they cover long distances very quickly.

When it comes to the political world, I was dismayed to learn that the illiteracy rate among South Africans exceeds 70 percent. Sixty percent of school teachers lack a college degree. Only 10 percent pay income tax. The public health care system is abysmal. Virtually every house is surrounded by an electrified security barrier. And, though apartheid is formally and legally gone, the small white population at about 10 percent still rules the economy.

Nelson Mandela is universally revered, almost closer to a deity than a political leader; his image and name are ubiquitous. Sadly, there is no one in the South African system with similar public respect and capability to help the country solve its severe root problems.

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