hi eljay. i think i posted on one of your threads once because i have a good friend who lives in cape town who is an afrikaner. we met online and i hope to meet him and his family some day. interestingly, a lot of your descriptors fit him well. he has become a very dear friend to me. he's probably a little older than you and was involved in the apartheid protests. i know he got gassed and mistreated by the authorities for his protesting. i have nothing but respect for him.

i think as someone else said there will be all sorts of people within any one culture so it wouldn't be right to view all afrikaners as the same. you sound like a lovely person. i'm sure the children just love the teddy bears you knit. that is a wonderful thing to do. i recently watched the movie 'cape of good hope'. do you think it's a fairly accurate, if movie version, of everyday life in the cape post-apartheid? i enjoyed the movie.