O R Tambo Airport Jo'burg

End of the trip, on the way home. Yesterday we were very glad that we had decided to overnight in Pretoria, rather than go directly from Blyde River to the airport. On the N4 we had an hour hold-up with another accident caused by a truck. There was a terrible one on the road just outside Louis Trichard as we drove from Musina a few days ago. It looked as if two lorries had had a head on collision. Yesterday the accident seemed to have been caused by a lorry carrying truckloads of cement. The cab was completely crushed, nobody could have got out of it alive, and the cement was all over the road.
It was nice being back at the Guesthouse in Pretoria where we started the journey. We went to the Union Buildings today, and wandered around Central Pretoria. It is such a nice city with it's wide tree-lined streets. We saw the enormous statue of Nelson Mandela, and the Park, where they were still indications of the party which was held there last Tuesday at his funeral.
I wonder what will happen here now. It feels as if the death of Nelson Mandela will mark the end of an era. Everything we have heard from all South Africans while we have been here would suggest that the country is not in a good state at the moment. Corruption is affecting everyone's lives, from the highest echelons of government downwards. Maybe the country needs to move on to another stage. Maybe while Mandela was still alive the country was still luxuriating in the post-apartheid era, it needs to progress beyond that, to develop into  country of true equals. The white population, with 200 years of existence here, feel under threat. It would be such a shame if black dominance replaced Mandela's intention of an integrated society. I would like to think that this beautiful country will find it's way in my lifetime, but I have some doubts.