Socially Savant

I come from an ultra cool and luscious suburb called Westville. It's just outside of Durban and it stretches between two townships, Claremont and Chesterville. Comrades runners race through it on the M13 every year for the Marathon. Mostly this is known as a wealthy suburb, where the wealthy have massive green lawns with picketed fencing and dogs running freely. Imagine a Durex advert.  However, I grew up there purely by chance as a domestic workers daughter. There were plenty of us who grew up in the back parts of this luscious lawns in the sections called servants courters and we all were close and tight growing up. But from there I learned a lot about being a part of 2 worlds. See I was being raided by a rural Zulu mother in a western setting and I had to identify with both worlds and understand where I fitted in whilst trying to just be a kid. Identity had always been a thing for me. I was never cool enough for the kids I went to school with (either wasn’t rich enough...