Sugar

This isn't sugar, although Kathy, a media specialist from South Carolina, is very sweet. The Durban area is one of Africa's largest producers of sugar cane, the lovely green stuff growing in the background. Originally, thousands of indentured servants from India came to the area to work the cane fields. They and their descendants have made Durban the largest urban Indian population outside of India. Even Gandhi once lived here as a young attorney.


Sugar cane fields aren't fun places to work. If the cane rats, the size of a shih tzu aren't a problem, the black mamba snakes are. Add in summer temperatures around 100 degrees and the challenges are obvious.

If you look in the background, you can see the Indian Ocean