I have not been blogging for a while. I have been lacking inspiration until today when I had to take a taxi to work. I will not bore you with the details of how I ended up in a rundown minibus---but I'm sure that round about now you can figure out that I usually have a reliable self-managed mode of transport. I'm afraid that my reliable mode of transport has not been reliable for almost a month now. But that's not the issue here...the issue is my experience that I want to share with you as a Black person living in South Africa.
Yes, yesterday felt like it has been a while since I was 'Black'! My system was shocked beyond reasonable doubt.
I left my house at exactly 7:30am to catch a taxi at the nearest
