A couple months ago my roommate, Brandon Ray, penned an article entitled "A Postcard from South Africa," addressing income inequality and micro-entrepreneurship in the nation. I promised the CBJ editors I also would contribute a piece, and I have had four months to contemplate my living in Cape Town and my experience in Southern Africa, the region.
On a brisk spring evening, Steve and Anne Sierigk met Jeffrey Witty in United Way's Livermore Building on Aurora Street. Steve and Anne run Acorn Designs, an eco-friendly paper products company, out of their farm house in Trumansburg. Jeffrey, known to his customers and friends as "Ru," is the owner of Providence Hobbies on Seneca Street.