Story #1, Ella Ziegler, 2007
If I see somebody running down the street in South Africa, I figure this person is running away from something.
If I see somebody running down the street in Germany, I figure this person is running towards something.
Ever since our apartment was burgled and most of our equipment was stolen, we have started hiding our leftover valuables before leaving the house. I now worry about forgetting where I have hidden our things.
Sometimes I wonder if we will be burgled again, and how it would feel the second time.
The branch of a tall overhanging tree touches the wire of an electric security fence, causing the fence to spark.
We live on the sixth floor of an apartment block in Sunnyside. On 24 August 2007, at four thirty on this Friday morning, while looking out of our bathroom window, I saw a young man wearing a white T-shirt – it had a black number 10 on the back – climbing down the neighbouring building’s façade from the fifth floor. A week or so later, looking out of our kitchen window, I saw a young man putting on a white T-shirt with a red number 11 on the back in a room on the sixth floor of the neighbouring building. On 1 October 2007, a Monday, we saw a woman wearing a red T-shirt with a white number ten on her back.
Voortrekker Monument silhouette viewed from Nama Waru, Plein Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria, South Africa, 2000