Richard Stallman visited Cape Town, and gave a talk at the University of Cape Town titled “A Free Digital Society”

On the 4th September I picked Richard Stallman up from the airport and we went to dinner with a number of people that had helped organise the event at Brass Bell, Kalk Bay.

Around Cape Town

He stayed with me and my friend Lerato in Muizenberg, and he is a gracious and accommodating guest. I took the Thursday off work, and we had lunch at a little local restaurant in Marina da Gama, and I then took him for a drive around the peninsula on a beautiful Cape day.

Folks,

I was met at the airport, and we went straight to the offices of InTouch, the company I have been in correspondence with. Good thing I had a shower ..

The company have arranged to put me up in a hotel for a week, until I find another place. Very nice of them ..

The company is very closely associated with Vodacom, a large cell-phone provider in South Africa. They have a number of products - two voice applications, running under OS/2, one for dial-a-share-price, the other for dial-to-get-your-current-bank-balance.