From this weekend’s The New York Times.
That’s where I am from. We’ll leave my ambivalence about the city out of it today.
UPDATE: I won’t comment on the video accompanying the web version of the article.
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From the video it looks like Cape Town has an affluent white majority. Colonialism or rather Post-Apartheid life has been good to them. Apartheid is clearly still drawing interest … I’m tired …
Me too.
“Because past dispossession still pays the dispossessor/ In compound interest/ Apartheid still declares/ An annual dividend…”
Jeremy Cronin, Even the Dead. 1997