Contact! by Jan Morris

Author:Jan Morris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Advice

By and large, it seemed to me, British businessmen in Hong Kong pursued their various careers in a pleasant state of half-speed ahead, eating well, enjoying their friends, gossiping in the club bar, taking the junk out on Sundays–‘Whatever you do,’ they used to tell me, ‘don’t go out with Bill [or Simon, or Ted], you’ll be drunk before you get out of the harbour.’

Racial tension

Six or seven miles out of Pretoria, on my way to catch an early flight, I saw a black figure running helter-skelter down the road towards the city. A moment later another followed, and then two or three more, and they panted by us, with serious faces and bulging eyes, like participants in some strenuous sunrise celebration.

‘What are they doing?’ I asked my driver.

‘Those Kaffirs? They’re on their way to work. They’ve probably got to start at seven, and they’ve got a long way to go, so they’ve got to run fast. It won’t do them any harm.’

‘You don’t like Kaffirs?’ I surmised.

‘Kaffirs?’ he replied with a genial twinkle. ‘I love them like they was vermin.’

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