When I close my eyes and think back to apartheid, it’s 1984 and I’m sitting on my grandparents’ veranda in Johannesburg. It’s a blazing December day, and I’ve just had a swim in their pool. Nesta, the black maid who lives behind the kitchen, is cutting the chocolate cake. In the garden below, her grandchildren are playing in our old underpants from Europe. We all know that apartheid will last forever.
當我合上雙眼回憶種族隔離年代時，腦海裏就會閃現1984年我坐在約翰尼斯堡祖父母家門廊上的畫面。那是11月的一天，屋外豔陽高照，我剛在他們家的游泳池裏遊了個泳。黑人女僕奈絲塔在切巧克力蛋糕，她就住在廚房後面。門廊下的花園裏，她的孫輩們在玩耍著，身上穿著我們從歐洲帶回來的舊內褲。我們都以爲種族隔離會永遠維持下去。
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