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My good friend Adrian pointed me at this article by Rian Malan. He’s a wonderful South African writer, whose memoir ‘A Traitor’s Heart’ is an authentic account of growing up as both the relative of one of apartheid’s architects (DF Malan) and a rebellious journalist. Whilst I can’t claim that my experience of Cape Town exactly matches Malan’s as described in his article, there’s a whole lot of resonance there. St James and Kalk Bay are very beautiful, and for some time they have been on my short list of Cape Town neighbourhoods in which to live.