Upon landing at O.R. Tambo take off your rose coloured glasses and bask in the pure African sunlight.  

If you feel like a holiday where you can get some good shopping, good food, good music and reclaim a bit of your sense of being then go to Sandton, Melrose Arch, and Hyde Park. These are a few of the places that will match your needs and not tax your reality.   

Souls in need of understanding will often find themselves on tours taking them through our well documented past, confirming we have taken a long hard road to achieving a peace that is still tender but healing. Soweto may seem like the place to be but other townships, Alexandra, Springs, and Diepsloot have a similar story and pain told perhaps with less flair.  

In whichever reality you wish to be entertained there is one truth about Johannesburg: it is a sexy town. It nurtures inspiration and whichever shabine, restaurant or pub you enter you will be welcomed by warmth. A natural warmth that makes you slow things down and re-acquaint yourself with the simpler way.   

Order yourself the local dish, pap (miele) with shebba (meat prepared on a BBQ) and sauce - with an ice cold beer. Windhoek Lager or maybe Windhoek Light but it must be cold. Don't over think this moment. Don't let words complicate what your soul is accurately trying to convey. That you are home. That regardless of who you are and what you may have done, you will always be welcome.  

It is this effortless grace that Johannesburg offers and all she requires is that you respect her past by helping her celebrate the victory to come.