HE’S hobbling on crutches when he opens the security gate to one of the most beautiful art deco apartment blocks in the Cape Town city bowl.
“It’s bloody sore,” Pieter-Dirk Uys says of the knee replacement he had about a week earlier. His left knee is wrapped in a special leg brace with a built-in ice pack, but he’s exercising daily and hopes to be back on his feet by February.
It can’t be easy – Pieter (77) has two flats above each other connected by a flight of stairs. But it’s his sanctuary, this slice of the Mother City with its sea of canna lilies in the garden
