BuddhismMay 29, 2009

Butterfly effect links Buddhist groups in South Africa and San Francisco

And a miracle called Woza Moya is born in KwaZulu-Natal
Story and photos by Wanda Hennig First published in the Sunday Tribune, South Africa The Ufafa district, near Ixopo in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is home to around 23,000 people. Families reside in a sprawling muddle of family compounds that stagger up hills and tumble into valleys, forming a jumbled patchwork of mud, thatch, concrete block and tin. The dwellings have no electricity. Water for drinking, washing, cooking and bathing is hand-pumped from underground wells and carried in plastic bucket and barrels. The area could have been forgotten. But — was it serendipity, karma or …

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