A soldier wearing fashionable eyeglasses blocks our way. With us, in the old days, there were no separate roads for blacks and whites. There were places that blacks needed a permit to enter, but they could easily obtain the permit. With us, they couldn't close off the roads to blacks since they were the servants in the whites' houses. There were hours when they were forbidden to be in certain areas.
Purple bougainvillea crawls up the exterior of a closed-up furniture store.
To judge by the amount of bougainvillea covering the store's doors, it has been a long time since any furniture was sold here. An illustrated sign is the only reminder of the abandoned business. Louw counts six IDF checkpoints in less than a kilometer, from the Cave of the Patriarchs to Shuhada Street. In South Africa, there were roadblocks only at the entrance to neighborhoods, not within them. No, not at all.