restaurants needed them to serve
black travelers and diplomats from
other countries, who in theory
weren’t subject to the same
restrictions as black South Africans;
black South Africans with money in
turn exploited that loophole to
frequent those hotels and
restaurants.
My dad’s restaurant was an
instant, booming success. Black
people came because there were
few upscale establishments where
they could eat, and they wanted to
come and sit in a nice restaurant
and see what that was like. White
people came because they wanted