South Africa Through The Looking Glass: A Fairy-Tale Gone Wrong

Bongani Ncube-Zikhali
6 min readJul 21, 2021

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Watching the recent looting that erupted in South Africa last week, I remembered an experience I wrote about almost ten years ago…

“We tend to put people in boxes. We see someone trying to make a few rands by, as you gave as example, helping people park their cars and we attach a single story to them — poor. No consideration for the person behind that…

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Bongani Ncube-Zikhali

A normal person who’s trying to live in a world that persistently refuses to be normal | Zimbabwean | Sorbonne University Paris | Writer | Computer Scientist