Golden Apple fauna

No doubt Jozi, The Golden Apple, is one rich city in more ways then one. The streets drip with stories galore that could make you sound like a kleva recounting them elsewhere. Take last Friday (12 Dec) in Newtown, two ladies waiting in line for a ?uestlove gig were on some, “...the Wyclef gig last night was just aite.” Like, OK are we in some big city in the states? Nah, Jozi papi!









Underground the digging is still going on, though not for that kinda gold this time. What’s got the huge metallic earthworms busy is all that wealth that Gauteng is trying to channel rapidly from the airport to the hotels and shops. This wealth is tourist dollars carried via credit card, traveller’s check and cold hard cash... which is always preferable. Egoli’s wealth is especially in its fauna, you get Thami, in advertising, rocking sneaks so rare their species is classified. Don Juan, producer, so talented, his talent remains unclassified. Kenzhero, a turntabalist so hypnotic I saw the piped piper taking notes in a dark corner... the list goes on.


A dude called Kgomotso, so industrious he had kats ignoring tear gas at a ?uestlove dj set that he organised. Ntsika, a Dj working on his first hiphop album, this dude is just so the infamous “third way” so central to Chinese culture... don’t call it the path of least resistance more the resistance of least paths... you know Confucius could trip off that too. Nothing is impossible the way Ntsika looked at things. Hang on though, everyone sounds super heroish or something, there are “normal people” there as well, ones who’s “super powers” are easier to aspire to... but that’s another story...