Spending money on buying a dog, taking it to the vet and for walks belonged to white culture and was not the African way’President Jacob Zuma Middle class South Africans people I know as family and friends, but also the strangers I see at the mall and gym, and those pulling into drives behind high walls are a strange bunch.

Flatlands focuses on Johannesburg’s inner city.

Brakpan is a small town that lies on the East Rand of Gauteng, sandwiched between Boksburg, Benoni and Springs.