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South Africa - the land of poverty

It is difficult to find words today. Yesterday we have one of the best concerts of the cathedral choir experience. During the dress rehearsal in Vryheid had the boys and men singing the sun move sung restrictive, b hen premiere in to the last place I occupied Abbey nkamana they have it g elebt . I said, cert in happy Domkapellmeister Roland Büchner after Kon ". This evening was a highlight in the history of the Do mspatzen " choir and the audience went with de m feeling from the church, etw have as very special to share.

go with these impressions we today after Nkandla, into the heart of Zululand. The Benedictine Bishop Aurelian Bilgeri, a former pupil of the Mallersdorf sisters in the orphanage had Memminger, the parent requested that "his" sisters in his mission area be used in South Africa. Two of the first four missionaries were nurses. They took over in the village of Nkandla a mission station with a small clinic. This was 1958. And so we celebrate today in the village church "50 years of serving the community of Nkandla in pastoral care, health w ork psyhosocial and outreach. mayor, diocesan administrator, representative of the Ministry of Health - they gave all the Nardini Sisters-the honor of their respect and express their thanks . The anniversary Devotional also offers the same even a first: The African sisters from Vryheid have with the men used the bus to join a spontaneous tanen choir practice and sing along with the cathedral choir, the Alleluia.

A music Alisher s welcome there by the "Sizanani children", a choir of orphans. You have Sizani Center, a center built by the sisters found a home. The appearance before a large audience connects the little ones. But are there before the altar, singing girls and boys, each with its own destiny s heavy transport . While a few applauded when s a smile flits across his face, at most suggests the view that their eyes h ave seen when a child should ever experience. They have lost some of their parents, mostly by AIDS, some are infected themselves. Are at their social orphans. Her parents have been abandoned.

The poorest of the poor: For them, the Nardini Sisters-in Nkandla there. Sister M. Ellen Dr. Lindner was born in 1955 in raft has given 2005 as head of the hospital. When she fell ill himself and could not be for several months in the hospital, were in the hospital abortionists changes introduced as a hospital performance. Since it is a state hospital, all federal regulations are carried out in the hospital. Sister Ellen also saw that the use is needed of the sisters outside the hospital so much more. The AIDS patients are often discharged from hospital when they can not help medically. You will be sent home, where often lack per de necessary care. The doctor has become a kind of community center built. 15 volunteers, known as Care Givers have formed the Nardini Sisters-in the meantime. Go out into the scattered kraals to AIDS sufferers, especially children to help.

We have in the past week, much of the work of the Sisters belonging r t, impressions gained in the various convents in South Africa. But what they really achieve that we are now clearly up close. In small groups take the older cathedral choir and a few companions in the afternoon to the people who stand for the Nardini Sisters-in center.

Together with the Care Givers we leave the jeep soon paved road. On the dirt road swirls on the red dust. The driver rspur is flushed, deep holes make the passage difficult. Again and again after a few kilometers, a Kral with round huts on around the next bend. We stop. Our goal will no path. Through the high grass we seek a path to put careful step by step on the uneven terrain. Go across country we descended the slope, uncertain what to expect. At the edge of the wide valley is a round hut. A six-year-old boy in torn T-shirt and pants and a little to his nine-year-old brother in the crowd as worn Hem d and pants on the clay wall, so here we look at. It soon emerged that the mother is not there is. The mother is 42 years old, suffering from AIDS and has five children. The father left the family long ago. He seeks his own happiness in Johannesburg. Tues e Care Givers ask. Very quietly tell the two little ones that they still nic hts geg have food . You have to drink anything. The sun burns hot on the dirt floor, pull on the children of a homemade car with handlebars. Their only toys they have made out of wire, pieces of cardboard and other waste alone. Your home is a thatched circular building with tiny windows. They are plugged with PVC film. For windows there is no money. No ray of light penetrates into the Interior. In the middle of about six square feet a single piece of wood is on the cold hearth. On a cabinet is a box of medicines, is a tin bowl. Dane ben is a small box of OMO, a toothbrush is in the plastic covering the window. On the wall leans a piece of torn foam. It is the sleeping place for the family.

Benedict, Uwe, Dominic, Sebastian, Joseph, Mr. Liebl and I stand helpless in front of the children. Meanwhile, her 23-year-olds ger brother geko is strains. He has an ear disease and therefore could not make a university degree. Currently, he assists on a Construction site in Nkandla with, without wages, and hopes that someday there he finds a permanent job. He wants. He likes the small garden next to the round hut, they have created with the help of the Nardini Sisters-. But for other vegetables is also not the money. He would even even have a garden. Doc h he needs work. He has eaten today yet. When we get the bit of fruit that we have in the car and give it to them along with a cereal bar, he distributed all bravely to his two siblings. When the mother comes back, they do not know. It is set out on foot to Nkandla, len ho to eat. R400, just under 40 euros gets them each month by the state, to four children - one was placed against their will with another family - and to feed themselves. It was a few W ochen the Nardini Sisters-come in the Convention and asked for help. They have brought them to the AIDS test, medical care have taken over. Younger children received school uniforms, so they can go to school. What the Care Givers else can do for the family? The 34-year-old Thembokuhle Khanylle they care, says: ". We hope to bring a little" food and a bit of hope - this is for the children who watch us move us in conversation give her smile and push us to leave with both hands, our hands a lot.

brought a bit of hope, Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller. He visited with his sister Ellen in a large family kraal. The mother of eight children suffering from AIDS, her husband died from the disease already. She has after d To her sister, who recently died from the virus, which included both children. Her oldest daughter, also with AIDS, has just become a mother. Even the 14-year-old son is infected. They all live here together in a confined space and fight for survival. And they live with the courage to take this life. Strange and uncertain, they face the visitors. But when the Bishop is one of the children on his knee, is quickly overcome any shyness the . The girls and boys sing n an s song, the joy of life is victorious. Bishop Gerhard Ludwig pray with the family and gives the mother a rosary. When the Care Giver tells her that the Pope has blessed the rosary, all want children to see and touch him. The mother shows him her proud and keep it firmly in their hands bruised from work.

"Love is our life, Love is our destiny, Love is the only thing God commands from us, for the fulfillment of all our duties flow from it. " These words of the Founder Paul Josef Nardini were at the anniversary Devotional at the center. "God's love compels us", stands as the motto on the brooches Mallersdorf sisters. Only this urgent love of God can give them the strength to take day by day, the fate of the people of Nkandla, South Africa, and to make her - and to bring a bit of hope, not only by words but by their actions, in the poorest Kral middle of a paradisiacal landscape.

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South Africa - The Land of the celebration joy

as "mutual give and take," added Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the mission of the Church in the 21st Century means. For a large party in the South African Benedictine abbey Inkamana on Sunday, he thanked both the missionaries and missionaries from the Diocese of Regensburg and the nuns and priests from Africa who work in East Bavaria.
Even the hard mass in the abbey church was consecrated in 1953 under the motto of "give and take." Thus, shared the musical design of the cathedral choir and the choir of novices "Nardini Sisters". The cathedral choir took over most of the liturgical music: They sang the measurement canon in settings by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Gutiérrez de Padilla, but also the "Ave Verum" by Mozart and the "unofficial anthem of South Africa's visit," Ubi caritas et amor "by Duruflé. The six-Nardini novices designed two processions with which the reading book and the offerings were conducted to the altar. The pounding rhythm of Zulu music, the colorful cloth that had wrapped around the young sisters, her habit, but the gesture of sowing and harvesting mediated the 350 visitors a vivid impression of the South African religiosity.
One of the highlights at the beginning of the song "Those who believe are never alone" - the "hit" of the Pope's visit in Regensburg. Text Author Horoba Hagen - as head of the Center for International Church of the main organizers of the South Africa trip - had to own English translation contributed. Accompanied by Director of Music Roland Büchner on the organ, the faithful sang so now top of his voice: "In faith we are not alone ..." Many of the 31
Regensburg missionaries and missionaries, who today are still in southern Africa, were personally Inkamana come - among them the oldest Nardini Sisters, Sr. Sola Schaumann and Sr. Carmelina Zink. The Mitzelebranten were the three bishops Hubert Bucher, and Fritz Oswald Hirmer Lobinger, not only as Pastor of the dioceses of Bethlehem, Aliwal North and Umtata did speak of himself but also for their support specifically African religious practices - such as the "Bible part", which is now known worldwide. It was immediately clear why the abbot of Inkamana, William Sieber, could say in his welcome: "What would the Catholic Church of South Africa without the diocese of Regensburg"
In his homily, Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller thanked "all sisters, brothers, priests and bishops who came from Regensburg to South Africa ". paid tribute in a special way he work of Mallersdorf Congregation: "The Nardini Sisters give signs and wonders of a selfless love for their neighbor. They live with sick and poor people and share with them everything they need. "The current pastoral visit, Müller added, should" support of the Diocese of Regensburg for the South African church to express ". This idea was the bishop once more, when Abbot Godfrey Sieber asked about the reception afterwards, "we are not forgotten in the future." Gerhard Ludwig Müller says, "We want to support the Church of South Africa continue - and financially."
After the thanksgiving service on Sunday morning and a varied program on the afternoon tour of the cathedral choir in the evening, another highlight of the festival. Old masters and modern church composers, liturgical patterns and free musical forms of piety - in the Abbey Church offered the young singer the whole range of their repertoire dar. with particular excitement was the premiere of Enjott Schneider's "Canticle of St.. Francis had been expected ". The eight-part work takes a turn back to compositional techniques of the High Middle Ages, but also uses modern means such as choral whisper, clusters, and return interval curves. Throbbing creation of the world pushing rhythms to the manifestation of things have become, from archaic original ground rises to the light of time and presence.
the Regensburg Cathedral Choir worked all these facets out vividly in the anthemic appeal of creation as "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" or "Mother Earth" - always connected to the leitmotif recurring praise of God: "Blessed are You, my Lord." The work of the missionaries in the deprived areas of South Africa came very close to the passages in which Francis ankheit of Kr , tribulation and death is: "Blessed are all who endure in Peace because of you, Most High, they will be crowned. "Even before the South Africa trip had stressed Domkapellmeister Roland Büchner, he would by the cathedral choir, commissioned composition to" dedicate Franciscan spirit "in the charitable activities of the Mallersdorf nurses and other spiritual helpers from the diocese of Regensburg in effect. Thus, the first performance in the Abbey Church of Inkamana to a resounding symbol of Christian charity. (Thomas Hill)

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South Africa - the land of night shifts

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Dr. Maria Baumann writes the article, Michael Vogl provides the live photos. The responsibility Christof Hartmann and Hagen Horoba, the tour guide.

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South Africa - The country of the new home

started after the glut of impressions of yesterday evening, we are now quiet in the day. After lunch at the convent, the sisters are expected at the Convention in only a few kilometers away in Vryheid.

In January 1955 Tues e Mallersdorf sisters were in the Mission sent to South Africa where they are named after their founder, "Nardini-Sisters." They built in the city Buren Vryheid a Catholic upbringing and education center. We were guests today in d he nucleus of the Missionsarb ince our sisters. One that was from the early beginnings of this, today's field matron sister Isentraud Rauscher to us yesterday was already in Maria Council Chitzen welcome. The 74-year-old was active there, which opposes Nardini as head of the school in 1978 apartheid laws had. She opened her school for blacks. The regime was threatened with imprisonment and the closure of the school. "I was just convinced that s we had to do as a Catholic school. I knew we had a good reputation and were attacking not so easy, "she says. The police also ventured nic ht , sister it to arrest and appealed to the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Education finally confessed under many obligations to a small number of Zulukindern as a student. But the resistance in the whites of habitable largest city was great. "On the first day of stones flew against our windows. We had Grafitis to the house walls. But we have not given way. "Sister Isentraud ö been found for the house for all Zulukind he wanted to come and set it to white men without parents, their children from school to neh . "A father has now threatened to leave his two boys to not come to us. But passed the second day, third and fourth, and the boys ware s still there. Later I learned that the boys simply defies her parents have because they wanted to stay with us. "The archbishop of Durban, they had a brave fellow. Isentraud sister had not jailed, but the penalty s remained. For 13 years, remained excluded from all sporting Nardini School school competitions a reprisal, d ie for the sports-loving youth was difficult to accept. "When our school was broken into once, the police wanted the F inger take fingerprints of all black students. I said, you can take the fingerprints of the children, but of all, black and white. And they have to stop to explain the white parents. "So it did not happen. "It could be intimidated in any case," they can look back at this difficult time. The almost daily struggle against the apartheid regime is and remains their most impressive experience, though it inf has to tell me a lot. As invited her school after all these years for the first swimming competition was the first time and was allowed black children to go to the start, Isentraud sister had won the battle of the Nardini Sisters-.

is now visiting the School of kn app 400 pupils and students of different cultures and religions, with the proportion of the Zulus at around 90 percent. And the weaknesses esters are enthusiastically and with a noticeable green variables love for the children.

Although school holidays, we welcome some 15 children and adolescents . So here wait till the boys from Regensburg, with which they want to sing in the hall of the school together. In the chorus they crowd up cautious on the edge. Domkapellmeister Roland Büchner agrees on the piano the first bars of the South African national anthem and a smile flits over the children's faces. The joy of music can easily forget all inhibitions. Geme insam is sung, the children get closer. When Roland Büchner sink distributed footballs and jerseys as business , because there are only boys and girls who are happy together. The cathedral choir p ump on the balls help stall s the jerseys, and proud future world champions shine on the guests. Actually, yes, the school will still be visited, but it falls to this nage Lneu footballs in the hands sowoh l the local children as well as the cathedral choir difficult. Their impatience is really not hard to see. And they, when they adopted the mandatory program are , faster than we can look away. On the football field Zuluboys small dash in the Germany jersey over the place, the pool is immersed in the monastery and cathedral choir and the Nardini Sisters-kickers are a strong team in the competition against the Nard ini students, reinforced by men's voices. Almost unbeatable reveals sister Emanuela, a native Breitenbrunn Erin. Locker shuffles Bavarian and English words in their cheers. ripples

In dream green courtyard of the monastery, in the 1955 the first convent building was standing and now a Franzikusbrunnen between a four-meter high rubberwood and bright orange flowers strelitzias amid a colorful carpet of flowers, reports them from their work, thereby ensuring along the way to ensure that no child goes hungry or thirsty. Since 1985 them in Vryheid. On 28 August it is then come to the they remember exactly. "Des was pretty exciting. I'm no gflogn never before. Mei, i scho wos lifted g'wusst of the world. "She is happy here. A girl smiles at her. It tells of its history, "it's touching." Back to Germany - can not imagine more sister Emanuela. "Mei, probably it went, if it should be. But this size, nature, life here, de s scho impressed. "Vryheid is their new home. And since you agree with all their German sisters.

music, it then connects all the more the old and the new home, even when all take time to complete the colorful day in the school hall. A little girl walked resolutely into the circle of the cathedral choir and sets a brisk Zulutanz onto Par warp. The native American Western Nardi flight strip off their shoes, beginning to sing and take before the 's this bear, two Domspatzen with the dance.

And then there are the premiere before the premiere. As a thank you to the sisters for their courageous, determined and fulfilling work for the children of Vryheid they are the first listeners of the Canticle of Enjott Schneider, interpreted by the cathedral choir. And d he boys are to take them into all the fine nuances of mood n touch with the jubilant praise God. The dress rehearsal in the hall succeeds so well that we are really looking forward to tomorrow for the concert in the Abbey Church. "Thank you men," exclaims a beaming Domkapellmeister and is satisfied with the thumbs up. "This is something special, something wonderful," says Sister Isentraud. And the little monastery dog who has listened to the Franciscan singing in front of the stage waving, happy with his tail.

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South Africa - the land of friendship

highlights are on this journey every day redefined. We have already seen so much beautiful and special, and it was our day today full of new and moving impressions. After a lunch buffet in the open air overlooking the Drakensberg Mountains, we went to Dundee. In the modest Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Rosary "received us Peter Cullen. He is diocesan administrator, an office he described with his characteristic humor: He does everything to make a bishop - but without the funny hat ". For him it was of course to cheer for his office to serenade the cathedral choir. The common prayer he asked God's blessing for our continued safe journey through South Africa.

through a landscape that is actually even more grandiose and, it went to Maria Ratschitz, a piece of land like paradise, as described by Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller later in the sermon. Safe in one of the most beautiful places in South Africa make the Mallersdorf sisters, one of the toughest work. They have in the former mission station of the Trappists started exactly ten years to build a hospice, especially for AIDS patients. The Duduza care center includes especially the home based care and to medical care for patients at home. The sisters go to the home country to provide for the sick. This form of volunteers, the so-called volunteers. A focus d AIDS work, he is the youth program, the peer to peer AIDS education program. Young people who have dealt intensively with the AIDS problem, AIDS orphans are often put themselves, their peers the knowledge about the disease and try to strengthen the personality and the confidence of the individual. Sister M. Dr. Irmingard valley Meier, who leads this work as a doctor sees a very important task is to teach the girls self-esteem. The role of women was one of the most important starting points for dealing with AIDS in Africa.

Next Tuesday, 1 April anniversary, an event that belongs to the Sisters of the saddest experiences. By the carelessness of a patient burned the hospice. Three people were killed. Sister Mary Anne Thoele wanted to save the patients from the burning house and died himself in the flames. The memory of the woman who sacrificed himself for the next dedicated the cathedral choir in the concert two songs.

The hospice is under construction. At present, therefore, only one AIDS patient to be cared for. The 50-year-old woman was disowned by her family. She ran barefoot to the Easter road from Dundee to Maria Ratschitz. At five in the clock in the morning they went off, came one evening them to the sisters. With her in the house of the Nardini Sisters three men and a girl have found a home. The men were homeless, one of them did not even have a name.

Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller visited in the time of the concert, the cathedral choir in the Church of the patients in their rooms. The fate of every individual is incredible, and yet shaken the history of the 19-year special. The girl has been abused by their parents so badly that it is from the head down completely paralyzed. The bishop prayed the Our Father with her trying to give consolation to believe in a fate that voice-and helpless. Also

Sister Irmingard it goes like this. "It's so hard, every time when I am with her." The work they do every day for the people, for the sisters never become everyday life. Maria Ratschitz is a place of Christian love is lived. "We need to talk about it. In real problems, we talk to the priests. Very important also is the community. We have also among the sisters talk to each other and can laugh in order to deal with it, "says Sister Irmingard. "We simply are people who are simple people there and always trust in God." The makes it so special from the Mallersdorf sisters.

The fact that the tasks in Maria Ratschitz only with the inner strength and the irrepressible vitality of the Nardini Sisters to be addressed, we could do.

We experienced a warm hospitality and an evening in which a warm laugh and cry was deeply touched. "The diocese ese Say Thank You": The motto of the pastoral visit was already at the concert in the center and found again after dinner-sounding expression. The Nardini Sisters sat in the front row, as the cathedral choir awoke with folk songs, many memories. The sisters joined in the familiar ways and sang in a "must i for the shtetl also "happy with. "Today we are all at least 20, 30 years have become younger," said Sister Superior area Isentraud Rauscher, a native of Erin Wiesenfeld, laughing at you to Domkapellmeister Roland Büchner and his boys. But not only smiling faces rewarded the cathedral choir.

"We have today a public holiday," said the sisters had in the afternoon the rest on the vast site. The workers would get to celebrate the day, the visit to Regensburg guests, free. But they all were there when the cathedral choir sang. And danced with joyous Zululiedern in the hall. Your answer to the concert was almost a " African Schuhplattln. The cathedral choir were delighted. The local Nardi's west brought their friends to their Zuluheimat blades. Instantly all were in the hall enjoyed work - and Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller and Superior Dr. Wilhelm Gegenfurtner middle. In the great circle African and German Sangesfreude replied the other, any unfamiliarity in common was clapping and singing. And as the cathedral choir sang her first trained South African song, sang the African hosts with not only full of enthusiasm. The boys touched it so much that young women not only furtively wiped away her tears. Regilind Eichenseher sister, born 73 years ago in Oberpfraundorf that had served us a great buffet, danced with so happy that everyone who watched her realized quickly that she has long African rhythm in the blood.

The departure of Mary Ratschitz, this very special place, fell hard for us. Cathedral Choir and the Nardini Sisters met at length in the arms. Everyone went with the feeling to bring something unforgettable. We came to say thanks, and were richly rewarded.

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South Africa - The land of the length

From the life-like capital, Pretoria this morning, we started to continue the journey into the fascinating length of Zululand. The nearly seven-hour drive took over in large maize fields and endless pink and white floral carpets - again all happily waving people. At lunch in the Majuba Guest Lodge already surrounded us, the first mountains. Particularly inspired us here the first ostriches, the strutted around the grounds. And thanks to our guide, Andrew, we now know all about the largest bird, with its speed, it can take up only the cheetah. Nearly as were quickly gave the boys after lunch when Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the momentum for the big football game.
The closer we got Vryheid, the more we captured the landscape. The road to the horizon over long distances was the only sign of civilization, otherwise surrounded and surrounds us great outdoors. In
Inkarmana expected us Abbot Godfrey Sieber (Father Godfrey) and his brothers. With the open warmth that greets us everywhere, he especially welcomed Bishop Dr Gerhard Ludwig Müller and Cathedral Roland Büchner, especially the boys. "It gives us a really great honor to be here at the Cathedral Choir will sing in Inkarmana" And how's ambitious , the monastery has been looking forward to the visit, was the common Dinner with the Benedictine monks clear. The cook of the abbey was specially sent for six months for training in a four star hotel to prepare for the guests.
Abbey Inkarmana, which will be for the next five days our lodging is just seven kilometers away from Vryheid, idyllic dammed a river. It was a Regensburg, on 3 August 1922, the monastery was founded as a mission station - later Bishop Thomas Spreiter OSB from the Dompfarrei. 1961 Inkarmana was the priory, 1968 conventual priory in 1982 raised to abbey. It is both a spiritual center and training center for priests and brothers from South Africa and overseas. Connected is one of the best high schools in South Africa. Of the 40 monks living at the time 25 in the monastery, the rest are outside the study or in use. The German brothers are from St. Ottilie and Schweikelberg. They came to the part 50 years ago to South Africa, then by boat to 18-day voyage to Durban and mud routes inland.
The greatest joy on that day probably saw Sister Gertrude. With tears in her eyes, she joined sister Isabell Fell, the superior of the Nardini Sisters of Vryheid, in the arms. Many years ago they had once taken in Mallersdorf parent company. Since then they write on a regular basis Letters, they were informed of the removal of over 8,000 kilometers to friends. Today they met again.

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After the route yesterday in Pretoria led to many of the high fences surrounding villas of wealthy city dwellers over, the aim was now Soweto, the township from Johannesburg with about two million predominantly black residents. The story began in Soweto in 1904, when the settlement Klipspruit the first of a series of settlements for color e gold miners was built. The racist government of Johannesburg was the district in 1963 the importance of an artificially created living ghetto outside the city inhabited by whites, and called it "South Western Townships ".

The painful history of this settlement is still noticeable today. Throughout this encounter the traces of apartheid, people marginalized because of their skin color and sentenced. Accompanied by a leader from Soweto, we were able to very closely by the courage of many people who live here, thank God, learn to overcome the country's past. The tour provides insight into poor circumstances, in which the inhabitants live in part today in corrugated iron huts opened, but also the prospect of all that has now been achieved. The unemployment rate in Soweto is still around 40 percent. The government built small houses where the people in need rent-free can live and now have electricity and water.

Among the particular impressions of the day is the open friendliness of the residents met us as onlookers waving their lives and welcomed, with a pride and joy of life, in the midst of these circumstances, touched and delighted. A first stop we made at the Regina Mundi church, the largest Catholic church in Soweto. In the resistance against apartheid, the church was the center. Built in 2000 it was with worshipers political events center for up to 6000 people. How much their life was threatened while showing the bullet holes on the ceiling. The police opened fire on the church during a meeting. The altar cloth covering a broken edge. A police officer struck the stone from a rifle butt. Before this altar the cathedral choir sang today. Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller spoke to us here is a prayer for peace.

lived in Soweto, the two men who brought the peace of South Africa. We visited the street, which they shared only one of the world two Nobel Peace Prize: Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, who after 27 years in prison a 994 elected in the first free elections in the history of the country's first black president. His house where he was arrested in 1962 and he was in after his release from prison first came back, was another stop for us. The small house is now a museum.

A road further recalls the most impressive monuments of Soweto to the struggle for freedom. 1976 school and student protests rocked Soweto. They turned against arrangement of the government, in the higher classes only in Afrikaans, the language of the rulers to teach, and not in English. It was the occasion for the youth to stand up to the age-long oppression. By the bullets of the police here Hector Peterson died. The photo of the boy killed on the arms of his friend, desperate accompanied by his sister, went to the media around the world, drew the attention of foreign countries to South Africa and the bloody suppression of the uprising. But it was also the first step on the way to the abolition of apartheid. In this way we were disturbing testimonies of people in Soweto, the Hector Peterson Memorial retrace a little. The memorial museum was installed in 1992. Large pictures of the uprising, testimony of the parties, banners: The authentic exhibits took us to be in a time of oppression and the furious determination to escape the contempt that made it a crime as a black man born into it. Still we stood in front of a TV recording the daily show, was in on German TV at that time reported to differ materially from the riots in Soweto. The view from the museum is along the road on which the students marched for their dignity and were fired upon, directly to the Wegecke, at the Hector Peterson died.

middle of the settlement of Soweto, we could be guests for lunch. In the afternoon we went back to Johannesburg. In the St. Vincent School for the Deaf sister Claudette Bogner welcomed us. The 63-year-old Dominican Missionary Sisters comes from Haines / Emily Haines. During the conversation she told us that, in the hospital Mallersdorf Sisters was born. At the age of 20 she went to South Africa. After training as a teacher was there for her: "In the deaf school in Johannesburg, we need someone." That was the phrase that turned her life. She teaches mathematics and technical drawing. For ten years she runs the school for the disabled, will be promoted in the following the abolition of apartheid, 240 mostly black children from mostly poor families. Together with five other sisters and many lay people she works with children aged three years and young people, preparing them for their way in life. After a church service in the chapel of the school told Sister Claudette of their daily lives and the many challenges. The cathedral choir thanked the sisters with a musical treat from the homeland. As the folk song "Birds of a Feather" with the text ending "... I can not go with you because I have to stay here," came spontaneously from the sisters: "And I will stay here," For Sister Claudette is clear: "I love South Africa very much, despite the many political upheavals, which we have been through. I would find it hard when I return to Germany would have. This is my home! "A bit homesick but then she admitted it, as they listened to the cathedral choir. "I've also had many visitors from my family over the years that I'm here. This is always difficult. "With a slight English accent she stressed but then decided that she really is at home in South Africa. She enjoyed all the more the surprise visit from the diocese. "I am delighted that I'm not forget!"

We were all very impressed by the work of the sisters. Bishop Gerhard Ludwig expressed respect for "all that is done here and done" this way: "Also what is not observed in public, is remarkable in the eyes of God. Here it depends on the commitment of the nuns and lay people vi eler. It is important that we keep track of what is being done in secret to good. It is important that you give the people who are in need of help, the awareness that they are needed, that their life has a dignity that does not depend on whether it is them awarded by other people or denied. "He thanked the sisters that make them well away from home every day, with CD recordings of the cathedral choir, which will commemorate the visit of the choir in Johannesburg.