Constitution Hill

We spent one morning visiting Constitution Hill - the former home of a prison and the current home of the South African Constitutional Courts. Constitution Hill is a difficult place to be. As the tour guide walks you around the prison the reality of life under apartheid becomes vividly apparent - to the point you can almost smell what it would be like to live with 35 other people in an incredibly small room that contained both bathroom "pots" and "beds" composed of folded blankets. It is heart-breaking and a points nauseating to hear of the cruelty that people have inflicted upon each other. That one person could treat another person in these ways is fairly incomprehensible -- the only answer to the questions of "how" and "why" seems to be "evil."