Born a Crime

money. We didn’t have any money,
so I was out of the mix there, too.
The group I felt the most affinity
for was the poor black kids. I hung
out with them and got along with
them, but most of them took
minibuses to school from way out
in the townships, from Soweto,
from Tembisa, from Alexandra.
They rode to school as friends and
went home as friends. They had
their own groups. Weekends and
school holidays, they were hanging
out with one another and I couldn’t
visit. Soweto was a forty-minute
drive from my house. We didn’t
have money for petrol. After school