I am climbing a staircase where on every stair people are trying to drag me back
"My Cape Town is younger and more vital, a teenager: beautiful, caring, dreamy, craving attention, frequently drugged or drunk, liable to be raped, stabbed, shot, cavalier towards HIV and tuberculosis, often angry, given to bombs, fires, and in-your-face racism. My city is emerging from a difficult childhood with hard-nosed characteristics but no sense of identity."
—South Africa Mail and Guardian. Cape Town is a city in transition, one that Mike Nicol says lacks a unifying myth. "Cape Town appears to be a nowhere city, neither part of Africa nor part of Europe."'
