THE PLACE CALLED HOME
Feb 18, 2019
3 minutes
IN 1974, my father bought a plot of land on the Cape Flats, a sour-green puke of a scrub-land pockmarked with vygies. Now known as Gatesville, this gnarled and dusty outback abutted Rylands Estate. Gatesville was to be the next Indian-designated block. My father knew this long before, being in the business of buying and reselling houses in zones destined for reclassification. It was a profitable business, and he had no qualms about what he was doing. I recall standing
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