Last day in South Africa and I sit here on the slops Table Mountain, in the Kirstenbosch national botanical gardens, contemplating the views over the Cape flats below.

It feel like I've been here forever, but it's just three weeks since I landed at Oliver Tambo international airport, on the other side of the country,

South Africa truly is a glorious place. Sure it has its problems, I know all to well it's horrendous crime rate, but what country doesn't have problems.

The real miracle is how far it has come on so short a time. When I was at university this country was at war with itself and the world. Daily images on the news showed riots and beatings, with 85% of the population classed as inferior human beings. People not worthy to sit on the same seats as their bosses. People not fit to live in the cities but forced out onto slums and grinding poverty.

How a country can recover from that in so little time and with such lack of bitterness is astounding. With one of the most enlightened constitutions in the world and some of the most amazing sights, South Africa is truly the rainbow nation.