Anyway...I didn't create the thread to start a race war or a city war.
It's just that, based on my years there and comments on this website, heads from Cape Town hate paying for something and think that's normal.
Can you take people like that serious?
As an audience?
As artist?
Businessmen?
Na!
i think it depends who you are. what youre trying to do and how youre trying to do it.
having left cape town on and off for years making my life a tale of two cities, i think what i will say for it is that some of the points you highlight in your first post are key and on point. i will not deny them. some of them are things that piss me off every other day. cape town IS racist, its a hard pill to swallow for the 'mother' city, but truth is she isnt always very nurturing.
but there are points and clearly at this point in my life theyre enough. i dont think she always does well by way of scorecard, but sometimes its not about the scorecard. and well for me right now, its a choice i make. and i think its a lifestyle choice. based on what i need.
and also i think im naive enough to be like in the face of all black people always leaving (rightfully so) i do think those 'unlikelys' for black people mentioned in your earlier post, theyre possible. and thats all that matters. may not be as easy. but its possible. l
