everybody. He was that friend who
believed in you and saw the
potential in you that nobody else
did, which was why so many of the
township kids gravitated toward
him, and why I gravitated toward
him as well. Bongani was always
popular, but his reputation really
took off when he beat up one of the
more infamous bullies in the
school. That cemented his status as
sort of the leader and protector of
the township kids.
Bongani lived in Alex, but I
never visited him there while we
were still in school; he’d always
come to my house in Highlands