The Virus Mutates: Apartheid 2014-style …
By Afzal Moolla painful it is to hear, from strangers, relatives, steve hofmeyr & company, friends, both near and dear, just how fucked-up this country is, cos’ you see, man, ‘these bloody blacks of ‘ours’ can’t rule’. ‘and it was so much better in the ‘old days’. note: old days = the Apartheid era. ‘oh ja, back then there was no crime’. note: back then = the Apartheid era. and no, they won’t say that ‘back then’ crime only affected the ‘blacks’. no, they feign ignorance of the Group Areas Act and of the Sowetos of our land. gugulethu, lenasia, khayelitsha, eldorado park, sebokeng, kwa-mashu, alexandra township, botshabelo, azaadville, kagiso, riverlea, mannenberg, roshnee, meadowlands, atteridgeville, chatsworth, mamelodi, phoenix, newclare, rylands, tembisa, was it all a dream? or was it as I’ve so often heard it being justified “you see in principle, there were ‘some bad things’ about Apartheid, but overall the system was not an evil, monstrous, inhumane, tyrannical one”. no, of course not. “you guys won’t understand but things were different ‘when i was your age’. note: when i was your age = the Apartheid era. of course, things were fucking different when you were my age, in the old days, back then, because back then, in the old days, when you were my age … the lazy ‘kaffirs’ were merrily chilling in their sowetos, the drunken ‘hotnots’ were pissing it up in their mannenbergs, the shrewd ‘coolies’ were making money in their chatsworths, and the benevolent white-minority regime of the time was busy seeing to all these niggling issues, and there were no electricity cuts for all. note: for all = for the privileged white-minority. joburg was so clean, there were none of these bloody _____________ ( fill in where appropriate = zimbabweans, ‘these foreigners’, pakis, somalis, mozambicans, ‘fucking foreigners’ etc ). so of course things were fucking different when you were my age. ‘ag not like today, né, man’. note: today = all things bad. namely: a ‘black government’. a ‘fucked-up constitution that gives criminals more rights than ‘us’ normal citizens enjoy’. an ‘almost failed-state banana republic, but ‘i tell you, give this country 5 more years and see what malema does to it, ja bru, just you check and see’. and on, and fucking endlessly on, and on and on it goes, a desperate, well-meaning, heartfelt, reasonable, patriotic, ‘only because I care’, meditation on the state of the nation. yes, oh most definitely yes, the virus mutates: Apartheid 2104-style. “Apartheiditude”. with style, fuck no, not gangnam style, ag nee man, steve hofmeyr style. 2014 afzal moolla copyleft -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
