Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa. A typical large city. Overcrowded, dirty and not necessarily a tourist destination. The difference that this big city has to most big cities, the Watchtower Branch. A large printing and translation branch.
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| Countries S.Africa branch prints for |
This branch prints for the majority of the African continent except for a few countries on the north of the continent. They have so much work they’re expanding to put in a new printing press and a new residence building to house all the workers.
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| Alex & Teena Ruff friends from our Fiji assignment |
To our surprise, in waiting for our tour to start we see one of our friends from Australia. We worked together in Fiji and now they’ve been here almost 2 years helping on the expansion. I also got see some friends from when I was in Nicaragua 15 years ago. What a coinquidink!
We found it interesting that there’s a group of about 30 brothers and sisters from Spain who are permanent bethelites here. They applied back home and were told they were not taking anyone but to apply to the South African branch because they needed help. They did and now they’re bethelites in S. Africa. It all comes down to really wanting to reach your goals!
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| Buses of delegates |
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Next to a stack of what the printing
industry calls Watchtower paper.
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When they want the best printing paper
they order Watchtower paper.
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| What a great a comment! |
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| Here's Leti with the sister that made the comment |
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| Our tour guide |
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| It's really neat to see these everywhere |
We were put into contact with some friends here in Jo’burg thru a brother in Cape Town that used to live here. They made arrangements to pick us up at the branch and took us to a famous Braai. That’s South African for BBQ. But being that were in S. Africa, we didn't have tri-tip or carne asada we had game meat. We had Springbok a type of antelope/deer. Thats as best as I can describe it. It was interesting to say the least. But we met some very nice brothers and sisters whom we have become friends with.
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