a supermarket, the poor mom isn’t
thinking, I’m aiding and abetting a
criminal by buying these Corn
Flakes. No. She’s thinking, My
family needs food and this guy has
Corn Flakes, and she buys the Corn
Flakes.
My own mother, my super-
religious, law-abiding mother who
used to shit on me about breaking
the rules and learning to behave, I’ll
never forget one day I came home
and in the kitchen was a giant box
of frozen burger patties, like two
hundred of them, from a takeaway
place called Black Steer. A burger at
Black Steer cost at least 20 rand.