
„You must understand that Jo’burgers regard moving to Cape Town as an admission of defeat. We think of it as a fool’s paradise where trendies sip white wine on seaview terraces, congratulating each other for finding the last corner of Africa that is immune to chaos and madness. ‘It’s like Europe or America’, (my wife) said, ‘only better’.
This is true. Cape Town is impossible beautiful, improbably clean, and overrun in summer by crews shooting international TV commercials. …
Live in Cape Town long enough and you lose interest in the outside world.” (zitiert nach Rian Malan, Resident Alien, Johannesburg & Cape Town 2009)
Ende Oktober wird es Zeit, dass wir wieder in unsere andere Welt eintauchen…
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