Born a Crime

(Chris Devlin) #1

understand; you’re sitting on a gold
mine. We need to do this for a
crowd. You need to come to the
township and start DJ’ing gigs. No
one has ever seen a DJ playing on a
computer before.”


Bongani lived in Alexandra.
Where Soweto is a sprawling,
government-planned ghetto,
Alexandra is a tiny, dense pocket of
a shantytown, left over from the
pre-apartheid days. Rows and rows
of cinder-block and corrugated-iron
shacks, practically stacked on top of
one another. Its nickname is
Gomorrah because it has the
wildest parties and the worst

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