Khayelitsha: A uMlungu in a township

Non fiction: Khayelitsha. A uMlungu in a Township. A white South African makes himself home in a fully black dwelling area outside Cape Town.
Otter, Steven
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Title: Khayelitsha
Subtitle: A uMlungu in a Township
Author: Steven Otter
Genre: Memoir
Publisher: The Penguin Group (South Africa)
Cape Town, South Africa, 2007
ISBN 9780143025474 / ISBN 978-0-14-302547-4
Paperback, 13 x 20 cm, 294 pages

Description:

It was late January 2002 and my girlfriend Aletta was returning home to the Netherlands at the end of the month. Once she was gone I knew that our one-bedroom apartment on the slopes of Table Mountain, in the upmarket suburb of Tamboerskloof, would be rather too extravagant a home for me alone. I'd asked a number of my newspaper colleagues to keep an eye out for a single room. Are you prepared to live in a black area?' asked Mzondi, a fellow journalist. South Africa doesn't officially still have 'black areas', I'd thought to myself, although on the few occasions I'd been to Khayelitsha I hadn't noticed any whites or coloureds about, not even just driving through the township in their motor cars. And Khayelitsha did not fall into the category of a 'no-go area', in light of the rather glaring fact that well over a million people lived there. But Mzondi's frank question stripped all political correctness from the issue. His home, he was reminding me, was a 'no-go area' for the vast majority of whites and coloureds. Actually, I am prepared to live in a black area,' I'd replied, for the first time expressing openly the desire to break down my inner prejudices and feel truly South African. Ignoring advice from his white friends, and to the bemusement of his black friends, Steven Otter throws caution to the wind and moves into Khayelitsha, a black township outside Cape Town.

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