A Stranger in Stellenbosch

Abstract

In February 1986 of a despairing year, a man in his early forties steered a hired car on to the freeway that leads out of Cape Town into the vast South African interior. It was one of those clear Cape days, with only a few clouds in the sky and a sun that would have been oppressive but for the winds from two oceans that periodically flushed away the city’s smog and continued to give it a perpetually fresh, exuberant atmosphere.