Pole to Pole
Day 125: Johannesburg

It is approached through wrought-iron gates and past newly-planted jacaranda trees. Inside is a fitted kitchen with all mod cons hung with pictures and paintings. He is particularly proud of a personally signed copy of a Robert Carrier cookbook.
While we eat breakfast he is constantly on the phone doing deals of some kind. He breaks off just long enough to give a public wigging to Roy, the gardener, who has arrived half-an-hour late this morning.
'Blue Monday,' nods Jimmy as Roy retires chastened, 'the people here they just drink all weekend long.'
I ask him if there are any whites in Soweto.
'Oh sure . . . twenty per cent of the taxi businesses here are white-owned . . . there's a lot of whites work at the power station . . . there's an area there called Power Park which has a lot of white residents . . . '
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Pole to Pole
- Day: 125
- Country/sea: South Africa
- Place: Soweto
- Book page no: 277
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