Swartkops
Swartkops. Why Swartkops? An estuary full of of sand-prawns and swimming prawns, of grunter, or tiger-fish, and the kob and fishermen who follow them; an old English village, a yacht-club - the second in South Africa, a club-house shaped like a boat. Then the railway cottages, the hotel, the shanty-town, the seediness and vibrancy of life. And beyond the railway tracks, the other South Africa, the sprawl of informal shacks, the energy and chaos of a town in the making. And, on the riverfront, home.
