Zoo Lake

This guide to Zoo Lake in Johannesburg starts with a strange legal quirk: a 1904 deed handing the city two hundred acres on one condition, that it stay open to people of every race. You'll hear how that clause held through the tightening years of apartheid, when the rest of the city was split into segregated zones, and about the 1956 evening when the ballerina Margot Fonteyn danced at the water's edge. Look for the fountain at the lake's center, added for a 1937 coronation, as you listen.