This is the story of a run. A run lies halfway between a bike and a hike. This run only took one hour, but even a short run can open a book of revelations. I record it as proof of how much living is possible in a mere 60 minutes.
Surfers beached on an uncooperative sea, Durban.
Today, North Beach has wrinkles and a drawn facade. Its 2010 World Cup make-up has now thoroughly faded. But it’s spotlessly clean, thanks to municipal workers, and safe, thanks to regular patrols by the SAPS. This makes it a great place to observe South Africa’s polyglot peoples at peace: running, riding, praying, surfing, fishing, begging…
Here you see recent migrants from the Indian subcontinent and people of Indian descent who now call themselves South Africans.Aziz Hassim’s classic novel of the city and Indian people’s encounter with its changing shapes and tells that story. Here you see people in distinct yellow ANC T-shirts, handed out at rallies, and worn not as a sign of political affiliation to one faction or the other, but just because poor people have not much else to wear. A few years ago the T-shirts carried Jacob Zuma’s portraiture. Now they have made way for Cyril Ramaphosa.Here you see pilates of the poor, early morning exercise squads, muscles and flab in unchoreographed synchronicity.
divested of its anomalous nomenclature. It probably escaped decolonial name-shedding because no one remembers what a bastard Addington was. But ironically, given that their lives and their wars overlapped, Addington hospital juts up against the equally misnamed
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