Are there warnings, anywhere in the world, about spending time in a public park in the middle of the day? Zoo Lake — PICTURE: MOELETSI MABELiving in Johannesburg sometimes feels like living in a “Comedy of Menace”, a phrase coined to describe British playwright Harold Pinter’s alarming, and a little creepy, plays.Pinter’s early plays (The Room, The Birthday Party in particular) are filled with sinister strangers who turn innocuous events — like a birthday party — into frightening encounters. The normal becomes the macabre, everyday bon mots turn into ambiguous absurdities.Here’s this week’s tale. Johannesburg is golden and dusty. Not surprising as its mid winter; the dry season. I look north over the city from my eyrie on the top of the hill that backs onto The Wilds in Johannesburg. The Wilds; a green lung that connects the start of the northern suburbs to the sprawl of what was once the heart of the City of Gold, downtown Joburg.It quite beautiful, the Wilds. Or so I’ve been told ...
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