for those of you in the Durban area, get your shopping done quickly, and get it done soon. I was at gateway on my lunch break, and it is an absolute madhouse. I narrowly avoided 3 accidents in traffic circles (apparently no one looks right when entering the circles any more), gateway itself is absolutely mobbed, and the christmas rush is causing traffic delays like never before.
On a positive note though, I got to watch an elderly woman get onto an escalator for the first time in her life. a small crowd of her friends waited at the bottom =P