Born a Crime

good as an outsider that I didn’t even think about dating. The only girls in my life were the naked ones on my computer. While I ...

time you got to her vagina, you’d spent a lot of quality time together. In September of grade twelve, the matric dance was comin ...

the cool guys with their girls. So I’d assumed I wouldn’t be going, or if I did go it wouldn’t be with a date. I had two middlem ...

real hustler, too, always trying to cut a deal, work an angle. He could get people to do anything. A great guy, but fucking craz ...

and settlements like it were empty places on the map where deported black people had been relocated. That’s what the government ...

heartless, survival-based reality TV show, only nobody won any money. One afternoon in Hammanskraal, Tom told me we were going t ...

Timberlands.” The talent show was in this little community hall attached to nothing in the middle of nowhere. When we got there, ...

Hammanskraal? Then everyone in the room turned and looked at me. Tom walked over and whispered in my ear. “Dude, come up onstage ...

rapper from America to come and rap in their talent show. He had demanded to be paid up front for doing so, and I, in my Timberl ...

lyrics.” “It doesn’t matter. These people don’t speak English.” “Aw, fuck.” I got up onstage and Tom did some terrible beat-boxi ...

about the dance. I told him I didn’t have a date, couldn’t get a date, and wasn’t going to get a date. “I can get you a girl to ...

“Okay, I’ll take that deal because it’s never going to happen.” “Do we have a deal?” “We have a deal, but it’s not going to happ ...

came over to my house one afternoon and popped his head into my room. “I found the girl.” “Really?” “Yeah. You have to come and ...

him. The two of us jumped on a bus and headed into the city. The girl lived in a run-down block of flats downtown. We found her ...

mean really, really enormous, fat woman. I was like, Oh, Tom. I see what you’ve done here. Nicely played. Tom was a big joker as ...

Beautiful eyes, beautiful golden yellow-brown skin. It was like she glowed. No girl at my high school looked anything like her. ...

the dance, when I would pick her up for the dance, all the details. We hung out for a few, and then Tom needed to get going so w ...

world. Over the following weeks we went down to Hillbrow a few more times to hang out with Babiki and her sisters and her friend ...

shacks wearing Italian leather shoes that cost thousands. An interesting crowd. Babiki and I never went on a date alone. It was ...

getting nervous. I didn’t have a car. I didn’t have any decent clothes. This was my first time taking out a beautiful girl, and ...