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 4 - The Prison Cell.
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
Before JIMMY knows it, BONES SHIBAMBO is in the cell BONES is a large gangster of a man, in his late fifties. He wears a suit that comes straight out of Sophiatown.
BONES: Jimmy, my leitie! ﹛my youngster!)
JIMMY: Papa Bones!
The two men dance a ritual greeting.
BONES: Jimmy ‘Long Legs’ Mangane!
JIMMY: Papa Bones!
BONES: Jimmy, my tsotsi! ﹛my ganster!)Wh&Vs my motto, my leitie?
BONES AND JIMMY: … dom dink ﹛dumb thinking) and blunders is never my policy!
They chuckle.
BONES: In tooge se dai (In the old days) in the days of Saratoga where the birds flew backwards, brains and brawn?
JIMMY: They not buddies!
BONES: Dom dink and blunders?
JIMMY: Never, never my policy!
BONES: Kom, sit! (Come sit!)
BONES and JIMMY sit
BONES: What are you, a fool? What are you doing here? My slim sharp leities slaap nie in die tronk nie! (My smart youngsters don't sleep in jail!)
JIMMY: Baba Bones, you know I'm not guilty!
BONES: Guilty or not guilty - here you sit wearing a badge of prisoner! Is this what I taught you?
JIMMY: Bones …
BONES: I taught you honour, style, professionalism! And now! In die tronk! The top of the body stays the brain, below the navel, Emzanza Afrika, (Below Africa) you find the land of temptation and blunders!
JIMMY: This has nothing to do with my Sqeezas, Baba! (My girlfriends, Father)
BONES: Don't you call me Baba! Am I your flesh and blood? No! And now you just a moegoe! (stupid fool)
JIMMY: Sorry, Baba!
BONES: If you got a puppy, and it's got a worm, you take the worm out! Am I right?
JIMMY: Baba, you're right!
BONES: When you were a puppy, you got a sex worm, and I never managed to get it out!
JIMMY: DiBones, I've been framed!
BONES: Masipa, man! (Shit, man)
JIMMY: It's true!
BONES: Politics het gekom en het verby, die Luthulis, en die Jan Smuts, en al daa'ie kak. April’ 94 het gekom, Mandela het gekom, en die hele wereld het gedans.
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- Love, Crime and Johannesburg , pp. 12 - 15Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2000