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 14 - A Melville Cafe.
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
LEWIS comes forward and addresses the audience. He is at his most suave and charming.
LEWIS: Yes, yes, yes, if you want more of this R & B, go to Melville! Jazz at Jabulani at the Hyatt, Kwela and Kwaito at Wandies in Soweto. Blues wherever you look! Saturday in Jo'burg. Bliss!
Be careful! Johannesburg has a reputation for violent crime!
But it is also has the friendliest, most interesting people in South Africa! It's the most cosmopolitan and fastest moving metropole in the Southern hemisphere!
Jo’ burg! A city unlike any other in Africa. It has the wealthiest, most sophisticated and liberal thinking population on the continent!
Imagine! Frothy Cappuccino at the Belem in downtown Johannesburg, with thick Portuguese sweet pastries! A detour to the old Mai Mai migrant workers’ market to stock up on trendy Zulu tyre sandals, Mbanthanda!
Sushi and chilled wine at a Parkhurst pavement cafe! Later, Indian roti and curry in Fordsburg for dinner! Saturday in Jo'burg-Bliss!
Take a walk on the wild side!
On crowded township streets! Over there - small kraals of goats and chickens; over there - wedding cakes and coffin manufacturers; over there - hairdressers tending to their clients under trees! This here, Mankhukhu - Mandela Village! Everything permeated with the smell of atjar and magwenya! Ah, Jo'burg, glorious, unforgettable Jewel of Africa!
THE COMPANY bursts into song.
FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY
Chorus:
Ho-lololololo
Moola dough
Borotho banyana ba
Emjipa ejozi kukhulum leash!
Cash, cash
Bread, cash, cash
Cash
Money speaks in Jozi
LULU and BIBI: Can it be that there so many words
For the one thing that gives so much pleasure
We are turning our hearts into stone
For the pressures of living in leisure
Walala wena Ejozi
Money - re buwa ka banyana ba
Borotho - sikhuluma ngenyuku
Smega - sikhala ngamapeni bo
Borotho
You sleep in Jozi
We talking about money
Bread, we talking money
Money, we talking about
pennies
Bread
Chorus:
Ho-lololololo …
LULU and BIBI: I feel like you swallow me whole
You told me with cash we'd be better
Can you honestly tell me you care
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- Love, Crime and Johannesburg , pp. 35 - 36Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2000