Having a Riot Good Time in Durban
Buying alcohol is illegal in South Africa, while buying marijuana is not. So obviously today I went out to get a drink. I went to the opposite side of my neighbourhood only to find that Queensmead Mall is locked up, the gates barred by two metal, and I mean this, bars that any able-bodied old person can get over. People were lurking around it, threatening the worst. Nothing was being burned and looted so far. Not today. Not there. So we walked, because you do not want to go out in a riot alone, to find a safe place to sit down and toss one back. Something you suburban urchins might not realise, is that it is only the gentrified business that have stopped drinking since the Level 4 nonsense. The Black neighbourhoods and the hovels of the lower working class have been supplying each other and life has been continuing, albeit at R30 more for your usual. Leaving the safety of a place that's governed by laws of its own, my friend and I walked towards Glenwood, via Umbilo, where we saw
