Wanderlusting in South Africa

So how many of you have ever gotten stuck behind someone driving way too slow on the road with no passing or cars constantly coming in the other direction?  Or how about you’re just driving along enjoying the drive, following the speed limit, and some jerk comes racing up behind you, flashes the high beams, and eventually has to slam on their brakes before running into the back of your car?  Well, not that that doesn’t happen here, but it doesn’t seem to happen so much.  A relatively common courtesy (at least one that I’ve already seen many times in just one day’s drive) is for the slower driver to move over far to the left (cause you drive on the left side of the road in SA) so that the other car can pass.  Then, once the faster car has passed, they flash their hazard lights as a ‘thank you.’  I know this is a small thing, but I think (in my vast knowledge of having been in South Africa now for about 12 hours!) it is very representative of the courtesy that people give one another here.  To me, it seems there’s more of an acknowledgement that different people move at different speeds (literally and metaphorically), and a radical acceptance of that difference—instead of one or both parties feeling uncomfortable.