Another Saturday in the park, same script. Uncle Sipho says load-shedding would’ve stopped if we’d just stuck with Eskom like in the Struggle days. Anele laughs, says Esk protek was never real, just less visible. A kid kicks a bottle into the air, catches it mid-beat of an amapiano log drum from someone’s phone. We don’t talk about land because it starts with “but my grandfather” and ends with silence. The city mows the lawn like that fixes the pothole swallowing taxis on Slovo Drive. I clock four white tech guys filming drones for a “township vibrancy” pitch — pay no one here a cent.
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