'This is what happens when South African entitlement made flesh meets grace at the end of a very long queue.'
I can’t tell you exactly when he arrived, because there is a point, somewhere between the third and fourth hour of standing in a queue, where nothing really matters any more.
To be fair, it’s not even a point. By that stage, time is no longer a series of moments but rather an ocean, silent and becalmed, extending infinitely in all directions. I could vaguely remember a before, back at around 7.30 that morning, when I had joined the queue outside the Cape Town municipal headquarters; back when I still believed that time was linear and that I might have my new car licence disk before noon; back when “noon” still meant something and wasn’t simply a nonsense word like “schedule” and “efficiency” and “some of us have work to do”. ..A subscription gives you full digital access to all Times Select content.
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