Born a Crime

named Robert. He lived in 206. As a
former trading colony, South Africa
has always had a large expatriate
community. People find their way
here. Tons of Germans. Lots of
Dutch. Hillbrow at the time was the
Greenwich Village of South Africa.
It was a thriving scene,
cosmopolitan and liberal. There
were galleries and underground
theaters where artists and
performers dared to speak up and
criticize the government in front of
integrated crowds. There were
restaurants and nightclubs, a lot of
them foreign-owned, that served a
mixed clientele, black people who