Born a Crime

people came. It was explosive. By
midnight the whole street was
packed from one end to the other.
Ours was the biggest New Year’s
Eve party in Alexandra that year,
and to have the biggest party in
Alexandra is no joke. All night, from
far and wide, people kept coming.
The word spread: “There’s a light-
skinned guy who plays music on a
computer. You’ve never seen
anything like it.” I DJ’d by myself
until dawn. By then me and my
friends were so drunk and
exhausted that we passed out on
the lawn outside Bongani’s house.
The party was so big it made our