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Ah! So you're curious about who it is that has so much time to waste writing all these things about a place that so few people have heard about ? Well -- I'm just your boy-next-door sort of person who, every once in a while (and I mean ONCE in a while!) feel inspired to say a few things about the place where I grew up and to share those experiences with whoever cares to read these pages. I'm not really famous for anything, except perhaps my ability to run up a huge telephone bill- no prizes for guessing why!

During working hours, and often after working hours and over weekends, I'm disguised as the Senior Programme Manager of Idasa (the Institute for Democracy in South Africa). My main job is as manager of the Southern African Migration Project (SAMP), which is a research programme on cross-border migration in Southern Africa. I spend 100% of my time doing this job, but I also spend 40% of my time managing Idasa's Cape Town Democracy Centre. Then I spend about 30% of my time either hanging around at home writing these pages and/or listening to music, or I might go off to some jazz club. When I really need to get away from it all, I go fishing. This takes about 10% of my time in an average year. But of course, whenever I decide to go fishing, the fish have gone on vacation.

So as you can see, I have plenty of time on my hands -- I just wish I could have it all at the same time.

If you want to get in touch with me -- I'm not sure why you would want to though -- these are my contact details:

29 Saddlers Way
Kenilworth
7708
CapeTown, South Africa
email: vincent@capeflats.org.za
Telephone:
+ 27 21 6835933 (home)
+ 2783-308-5933 (mobile)