Petronella Wyatt

Behind bars

The ongoing escapades of London's answer to Ally McBeal

issue 03 January 2004

Johannesburg

The South African sun is beating down on my brother’s garden. We have just returned from a shopping mall in Johannesburg. Jo’burg is full of shopping malls, massive American-style walkways. My brother and I have been sitting outside the Seattle Coffee Company watching people as they pass by. South Africans are averse to tanning.

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