Saturday, August 2, 2014

House Numbers

I am staying in Thembalethu tonight, one of South Africa's larger townships on the south coast. I asked: "What's with the big house numbers?" (the streets are not nearly long enough to accommodate such large numbers). The best theory I have heard is: "They must have numbered houses as they put them up. This one was no. 5884."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Or is that perhaps the Erf number?

Thomas O. Scarborough said...

Ah, that could make better sense.