When the winter wind blows at the end of July, beginning of August then East London is a very cold place to be. But it is still colder in Mdantsane. You can argue with me - but everybody says so. If you have experienced a day in Mdantsane when the outside temperature is about 12 degrees Celsius, the wind blows with gale force and the sky is grey and gets greyer by the minute, then you know what I am talking about. Or let me put it that way, it feels colder in Mdantsane.
The wind whistles and races over the hilly slopes of Mdantsane and makes the shacks rattle. Only occasionally the doors of some houses and shacks open to let the smoke out and a breeze of fresh air in. Fire and coal stoves are used to heat the houses. Inside, you might sometimes get the feeling that you are listening to some strange orchestra playing a modern opera on the roof of the house.
Mdantsane is beautiful and picturesque because the terrain is not flat.
It is hilly with man view points but the fact that there are hardly any
big trees or old vegetation that has grown over the years and could serve as a wind break, gives the
wind full power to play its game.
You know that it is really cold in Mdantsane when.....
even the ladies who usually do not like to wear pants at all - are wearing them under their dresses!
It is winter when the streets of Mdantsane seem so quiet like suburbia.
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