Robert Silke didn’t have the childhood of your average ’80s white suburban kid in South Africa. “The Great White Lifestyle of the time was braaiing in the back yard,” he says on Zoom from the office of Robert Silke & Partners in Cape Town’s Wale Street. “I didn’t really come from that kind of a family. My mother, Eris, was this glamorous artist. She never learnt to drive – so she used to pick
