real trouble. I stepped out of the
car, and he put the cuffs on me and
told me I was being arrested on
suspicion of driving a stolen
vehicle. He took me in, and the car
was impounded.
The Hillbrow police station
looks exactly like every other police
station in South Africa. They were
all built by the same contractor at
the height of apartheid—separate
nodes in the central nervous system
of a police state. If you were
blindfolded and taken from one to
the other, you probably wouldn’t
even know that you’d changed
locations. They’re sterile,