NATHANIEL NAKASA

People who have the best time in Johannesburg are the visitors. People who stay in town for a month or two and then fly out to their homes across the seas, with memories as their only link with Johannesburg. I've seen them sniff and stare at the city's narrow lanes where smoke dagga [marijuana]. I've watched them enchanted by the opulence of the northern suburbs where whites live. these men, usually foreign correspondents from newspapers abroad, even find warmth in the squalor of the black slums. They look at Johannesburg from all angles, in much the same way as they would besiege a celebrated statesman ay a press conference. They ask crucial questions without getting emotionally involved with the town's preoccupations.

- Nathaniel Nakasa, "Johannesburg, Johannesburg", Classic,196?.