BUYING TREATS FOR THE FAMILY WAS A WAY OF CELEBRATING
EVERY evening about 60 years ago, my uncle Daddy Moodley, who was a waiter at a Durban beachfront hotel, would take home oily brown paper bags of bhajia, and sev, nuts and boondhi he bought for 30 cents from Victory Lounge.
Now that was a sizeable amount of savouries to be shared with his wife and four children – and not forgetting some that he would have had as bites with his favourite tipple.
Those days Victory Lounge, situated at the corner of the then Victoria and Grey streets, was an
