My journey to the Mother City

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I recently had the pleasure of traveling to Cape Town with the Botswana Ryushin-Kan team.When I received the invitation to travel to the South African coastal city of Cape Town with the team to the Africa Karate Championships, I was very excited.

The 1, 464 kilometres  road trip from Gaborone to the sea point took us approximately19 hours. It was my first trip to the Mother City and I did not have a passport. I did the unthinkable by applying for a passport on our planned departure day, Wednesday. I had to part with P520 to be issued with the passport on the same day.

We left Gaborone around 19:45 hours and planned to exit the country through the Pioneer border gate. While seated on the bus, I scanned around the bus to see if I recognised anyone, but unfortunately I was amongst strangers.

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