Sweets from Sixpence
Chaim Sacks
1971
As a new arrival I wasn’t any good at shopkeeping, and not much of an expert with a horse and cart either. So I drifted round the streets, a sort of washout. I can never forget one day wandering about the streets of Johannesburg, envying those shopkeepers who already had the honour to have made it and meeting a man who was in the process of…
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