The violence choking parts of Cape Town is real; the suggested threat to the Love Island contestants is not. A South African can’t just start watching Love Island with no preparation. If I were a longtime Love Island watcher, my sense of it as breathtakingly weird would have become stale. We worry about them every year; and now, as if we do not all have enough on our plates, we worry about the Love Island contestants too. • Rosa Lyster is a writer who lives in Cape Town

Source: The Guardian January 22, 2020 13:41 UTC