Places

The Cricket Club in Constantia

Some places hold a country's contradictions more honestly than they intend to. This is an afternoon spent at a cricket club in the affluent suburb of Constantia, Cape Town — where the beer is cold, the past is present, and a joke gets told three times without anyone asking

People

No Sky Here: Richard Rive and District Six

In the photograph my father lent me, there is no sky. Three men, two decades, one absence that never quite ended. A portrait of South African author, Richard Rive, and of the place that made and unmade him. In the black and white photograph that my father has lent me,