Born a Crime

something. He’s paid a pittance but
at least he’s paid. He’s told where to
be and what to do every waking
minute of his day. Then apartheid
ends and he doesn’t even have that
anymore. He finds his way to
Johannesburg, looking for work,
trying to feed his children back
home. But he’s lost. He has no
education. He has no skills. He
doesn’t know what to do, doesn’t
know where to be. The world has
been taught to be scared of him, but
the reality is that he is scared of the
world because he has none of the
tools necessary to cope with it. So
what does he do? He takes shit. He