Diary: Joburg is not my home any more

Between 1991 and 1998, I lived with my family in Johannesburg. In 2001 we sold our house on Bryanston Drive to a retired British pilot, and since then I never returned to Joburg until August this year. When I saw it this time, 'our house' has been bulldozed, garden and trees erased, and swimming pool filled, to give way to new development of gated community.