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JUSTICE MALALA: An appetising alternative
At a small eatery where posters adorn the walls and lighting is minimal, the menu offers visitors some unexpected flavours
Where do you take 30 MBA students from a top California business school for dinner? To a place where their ideas about SA are challenged, where their world is expanded, where their curiosity is satisfied — and their tummies are filled. Sifiso Ntuli, proprietor, chef and maître d’ of the Roving Bantu Kitchen, says the problem with the "new" SA is that we did not press the reset button right at the beginning. We didn’t articulate the idea of a united, nonsexist and democratic SA. We assimilated, instead of rebuilding.When we went to his place he was desolate. Someone had just painted a flower over a decades-old Nazi sign in the neighbourhood. "They are erasing history," he said. "We cannot learn from history unless we see it, unless we see what has been done here in our name and that of humanity," he said. I sipped on my Carling Black Label. Ntuli pointed at the wine his lovely wife Ashley was sipping. "You should have some of that fabulous wine," he said, indicating a bottle from the...
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