CHRIS THURMAN: Joburg might have Best Whites, but Cape Town has dark comedy
IT’s a busy time for art aficionados in Johannesburg: Art Week Joburg ended on Wednesday and the FNB JoburgArtFair starts on Friday. If I were an aficionado myself — and a more reliable visual arts correspondent — I’d probably be writing something about these events. But this week I’m in Cape Town and writing about theatre.Regular readers of this column will know I have a vexed relationship with the Cape of Good Hope and Storms. You could probably describe it as a love-hate thing.As columnist Rebecca Davis observes, a "Best White" is obliged to adopt this posture. Being a Best White, explains Davis, "revolves around proving to everyone else that you are not like the other whites". She says Best Whites who are denizens of Johannesburg "have spent years making it plain that they dwelled in a moral league far above Capetonians purely by virtue of living in an ANC-controlled metro".But in 2016, Joburg-based Best Whites have a problem. We now live in a DA-led municipality under mayor Her...
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