Cheese on a sandwich, cheese in
your fridge, that meant you were
living the good life. In any township
in South Africa, if you had a bit of
money, people would say, “Oh,
you’re a cheese boy.” In essence:
You’re not really hood because your
family has enough money to buy
cheese.
In Alex, because Bongani and
his crew lived in East Bank, they
were considered cheese boys.
Ironically, because they lived on the
first street just over the river, they
were looked down on as the scruff
of East Bank and the kids in the
nicer houses higher up in East Bank