It was 1980 when young Asher Bohbot arrived in South Africa for a holiday. He was meant to be travelling with a friend, but the friend backed out and Bohbot arrived from Israel alone. He wasn’t perturbed, and toured with all the confidence of an adventurer with no responsibilities.

He caught a bus to downtown Johannesburg and saw a face he recognised – a girl who was once his flatmate in Israel, where Bohbot had grown up as the child of Moroccan immigrants. They started chatting, and got off the bus together so he could see her new life in Johannesburg and meet her husband.