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 7 - Bokkie's Study
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
He's making a fool of you, Lulu!
GINA SHMUKLER AND LAWRENCE JOFFE (Bokkie ‘Bubbles’ Levine)
LULU: Daddy, you've got to help me get Jimmy out of prison.
BOKKIE: Lulu, my shnookums, what the hell can I do?
LULU: You've got connections. You're a big wig in the town.
BOKKIE: So?
LULU: Get a favour out of Lewis Matome.
BOKKIE: Matome? He's just a business man!
LULU: Daddy, You know as well as I do, your friend Lewis Matome is a powerful man!
BOKKIE: So?
LULU: He's in with the big boys! He's close to the ear of the President!
BOKKIE: If you really wanna know - the only thing closer to the President's ear is the President's ear wax!
LULU: That's my point!
BOKKIE: And so?
LULU: He's your big chaver (friend)l He can help get Jimmy out!
BOKKIE: If you really wanna know, I ‘m glad your poet is in prison!
LULU: Daddy, how can you say that!
BOKKIE: Because I believe it!
LULU: Jesus!
BOKKIE: I don't want you to see that gangster friend of yours any more! He's a danger! Besides - he writes kak poetry! I know this is the new South Africa but there are limits!
LULU: You always said your greatest happiness is my happiness!
BOKKIE: And so?
LULU: I'm your princess, your precious, your blessing…
BOKKIE: And so?
LULU: Daddy, I'm so unhappy, I can't live without him!
BOKKIE: You're in love with a shwartsa (black)\
LULU: Daddy …
BOKKIE: And what's more, not just any shwartsa - a gangster shwartsa!
LULU: That is not a nice word!
BOKKIE: I didn't send you to an expensive Jewish day school so that you could end up in love with a shwartsa!
LULU: That's where I met him, remember!
BOKKIE: I've forgotten. Remind me!
LULU: Jesus! Jews for Social Justice.
BOKKIE: Oivay!
LULU: He's a great artist of the struggle and a proper mench. So leave me alone. It's thanks to heroes like Jimmy that we're free today. Where were you in the days of struggle?
BOKKIE: Paying for your education and your n|ce clothes and your mother's psychiatric bills. Which CV do you want to see?
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- Love, Crime and Johannesburg , pp. 20 - 22Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2000