Born a Crime

a government school, Sandringham
drew kids from all over, making it a
near-perfect microcosm of post-
apartheid South Africa as a whole—
a perfect example of what South
Africa has the potential to be. We
had rich white kids, a bunch of
middle-class white kids, and some
working-class white kids. We had
black kids who were newly rich,
black kids who were middle-class,
and black kids from the townships.
We had colored kids and Indian
kids, and even a handful of Chinese
kids, too. The pupils were as
integrated as they could be given
that apartheid had just ended. At H.