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 3 - The Office of the Chief of Police
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- 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
A meeting - LEWIS MATOME, dashing, dangerous and businesslike; BOKKIE LEVINE, a Johannesburg Jewish business man in his fifties; and QUEENIE DLAMINI, a powerful graduate of the struggle.
LEWIS: Queenie Dlamini, new Chief of Police!
QUEENIE: Lewis Matome, new Chairman of the Bank!
LEWIS: I want you to meet Bokkie Levine, my co-chair in Business Fighting Crime!
QUEENIE: Lewis Matome, you certainly pick them! Bokkie Levine, maker of teargas for the old regime!
BOKKIE: Which the new regime is perfectly happy to buy! Queenie Dlamini, it's a pleasure to meet you!
QUEENIE: And you.
LEWIS: Bokkie is helping us enormously. He knows every little scam in the city!
QUEENIE: I'm sure he does. Your reputation precedes you, Bokkie 'Bubbles’ Levine!
BOKKIE: As does yours, Queenie, ‘Struggle Accounting’ Dlamini!
QUEENIE: Well, let's face it, Lewis, we need all the help we can get.
BOKKIE: Okay, let's not beat around the bush! We're here to plan a campaign.
LEWIS: We're right behind you, Comrade Bokkie!
QUEENIE: Well Lewis! Where once we gathered to plan a crime, now we gather to conquer crime! Not you, Bokkie, of course.
BOKKIE: If you're talking about crime, my sweetie - I've had my fair share!
LEWIS: Gentlemen, I'm already late for my next meeting! Can we begin?
QUEENIE: Sure. Ma-Gents, take a seat. The three sit in elegant metallic armchairs.
BOKKIE: Look - let's cut through the crap! The City is on its knees, the Rand's in the sewers, the criminals are running vilt (wild), and we're trying to do business here!
LEWIS: We have to have a plan!
QUEENIE: Before we make a plan, we have to know what we fighting! Who we fighting, what we fighting for!
BOKKIE: What you mean ‘for’? We're fighting against! Against! Against!
LEWIS: Calm down, Bokkie - calm down!
BOKKIE [shouting]: I'm calm - I'm calm - I'm calm!
QUEENIE: Gentlemen, please! We have big questions! How can we tackle crime when there is so much poverty?
BOKKIE: Come on! It's not the people in poverty, it's the guys with education doing the crime!
LEWIS: The syndicates are full of Harvard MB As!
BOKKIE: Ja, it's the guys with training in MK doing all the stuff.
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- Love, Crime and Johannesburg , pp. 7 - 12Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2000