Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Frontispiece
- Love, Grime And Johannesburg
- Scene 1 A Public Square
- Scene 2 The Prison Cell
- Scene 3 The Office of the Chief of Police
- Scene 4 The Prison Cell.
- Scene 5 A City Council Boardroom
- Scene 6 The Prison Cell
- Scene 7 Bokkie's Study
- Scene 8 The Prison Cell
- Scene 9 A Melville
- Scene 10 Office of the Chief of Police
- Scene 11 The Open Door
- Scene 12 The Prison Cell
- Scene 13 A Melville Cafe
- Scene 14 A Melville Cafe.
- Scene 15 The Prison Cell
- Scene 16 Office Corridors
- Scene 17 Bokkie's Study
- Scene 18 A Melville Cafe
- Scene 19 The Prison Cell
- Scene 20 The Doorway
- Scene 21 A Melville Cafe
- Scene 22 The Office of the Chief of Police
- Scene 23 A Cheap Bruma Lake Hotel Room
- Scene 24 The Public Square
Scene 23 - A Cheap Bruma Lake Hotel Room
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 June 2019
- Frontmatter
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Frontispiece
- Love, Grime And Johannesburg
- Scene 1 A Public Square
- Scene 2 The Prison Cell
- Scene 3 The Office of the Chief of Police
- Scene 4 The Prison Cell.
- Scene 5 A City Council Boardroom
- Scene 6 The Prison Cell
- Scene 7 Bokkie's Study
- Scene 8 The Prison Cell
- Scene 9 A Melville
- Scene 10 Office of the Chief of Police
- Scene 11 The Open Door
- Scene 12 The Prison Cell
- Scene 13 A Melville Cafe
- Scene 14 A Melville Cafe.
- Scene 15 The Prison Cell
- Scene 16 Office Corridors
- Scene 17 Bokkie's Study
- Scene 18 A Melville Cafe
- Scene 19 The Prison Cell
- Scene 20 The Doorway
- Scene 21 A Melville Cafe
- Scene 22 The Office of the Chief of Police
- Scene 23 A Cheap Bruma Lake Hotel Room
- Scene 24 The Public Square
Summary
JIMMY and BIBI are making love under the sheets. BONES stands quietly at the door.
JIMMY: Oh Bibi, oh Bibi, give it to me baby! Yoo! Don't move, don't move, ooh, baby, move, move, move! No stay still, you got it, baby Mtanyam …
Ooh, ooh, you look like your mother when she was pregnant
with me!
Oh my baby, I love you! I'm gonna take you to my home, I'm gonna let you meet my mother and father! Oh baby don't move, don't move, I love you!
BIBI: Aaaah aaah aaah aaahmandla! Jimmy ‘Long Legs’! As JIMMY and BIBI reach their climax, BONES speaks. JIMMY, startled, snatches for the sheet and tries to hide his body. BIBI grabs the duvet. Enter QUEENIE, LULU and BOKKIE.
BONES: ‘Long Legs’ segat!
JIMMY: Ah, Papa Bones!
BONES: Papa Bones, my arse!
JIMMY: Ah, Bra Bones, let me explain!
BONES: Explain! Explain! I give you the key, the right key! What do you do? You open the bloody wrong door!
JIMMY: Bones, please …
BONES: My lewe is op die lyn (My life is on the line), and what you doing!!! You have given up your chance, because you can only smell women! U phatesitswe ka mpapa! (You are bewitched by vaginas!)
JIMMY: Ah Bones…
BONES: Do you think I click my fingers and prison doors all over Jo'burg spring open?! Is that what you think! Masipa antatwa man! (Shit, man!) I spent money! I pulled strings! I begged favours! So that you could dip your one-eyed wonder in that used up piece of street tart!
My dignity is rotting in daai squeeza (that girlfriend) you swimming in!
You smell a woman and you lose your mind! You're meant to be over the border! What happened to the plan?
LULU: Jimmy you fool, you could have had me. So long my darling, my sweetheart, my poet! I never want to see you again!
BOKKIE: You tell her my sweetie - Buafela! (Tell her!)
BONES: Let me tell you my boy - you gonna go to jail, and there, the only piece of arse you ever gonna get near is gonna have a cock attached to the front!
QUEENIE, triumphant, climbs on the bed.
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- Love, Crime and Johannesburg , pp. 50 - 53Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2000