Kalk Bay Improvement Association

There is an effort, it seems, to generate jobs across South Africa to combat the astronomical unemployment rate. Not long after we arrived in Cape Town, we noticed that there are "security" guards in most of the parking lots of area shopping centers. These folks actually direct you to open parking spaces (wouldn't that be just *great* at home during the Christmas season? No more stalking people in the parking lots????). As it turns out, many of them expect a tip. As we were leaving the parking lot behind the resturant we ate at Saturday night, the "guard" stopped us and "asked" for a donation to the Kalk Bay Improvement Fund. We gave him some Rand coin (about R5 --> less than $1) and he was happy. I can live with that.