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 16 - Office Corridors
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
'Do we let him out or do we keep him in?'
LINDA SEBEZO (Queenie Dlamini, Chief of Police) and Arthur Molepo
Shadows dominate, but two rather sinister pools of light are evident.
QUEENIE is in the one, LEWIS is in the other. There is a significant distance between them.
They are both on cellphones.
QUEENIE: So? Must I keep him in, or must I let him out? I want to know. I need to know.
LEWIS: Can we, with a clear conscience, keep him behind bars? Is that the question?
QUEENIE: Is what the question?
LEWIS: In short and in truth, is he innocent or is he guilty?
QUEENIE: Is that the question?
LEWIS: Is he innocent or is he guilty?
QUEENIE: Damned cellphone! You're breaking up … you're breaking up …
LEWIS: Hello? Hello? Are you there?
QUEENIE: I'm here, I'm here! Is that the question?
LEWIS: Is what the question?
QUEENIE: Look let's say he robbed the bank, and I'm not saying he did, that doesn't mean he's guilty.
LEWIS: I'm losing you …
QUEENIE: I said … Just because he robbed the bank, doesn't mean he's guilty …
LEWIS: I'm losing you …
QUEENIE: I said … Just because …
LEWIS: I can hear what you are saying, but what do you mean?
QUEENIE: I mean, there may be a good reason to rob a bank.
LEWIS: Come on, Queenie!
QUEENIE: No look, if he's in the secret secret service, maybe they wanted him to rob the bank!
LEWIS: You're breaking up again!
QUEENIE: What?
LEWIS: You've gone completely fuzzy!
QUEENIE: I said, if he's in the secret secret service, maybe they wanted him to rob the bank!
LEWIS: Oh, come on, Queenie!
QUEENIE: That's the sort of thing the secret secret service does. Take bombs to Cape Town! Infiltrate the gun running operations! Launder the money! That sort of thing! Some of our best bomb planters and gun runners have been our own guys!
LEWIS: Let's say he's innocent.
QUEENIE: I'm losing you!
LEWIS: Let's say he's innocent!
QUEENIE: Well … let's say he's been framed, let's say the secret secret service put the money and the guns in the car.
LEWIS: Could have been anyone.
QUEENIE: What you mean?
LEWIS: He could have been framed by anyone.
QUEENIE: What do you mean?
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- Love, Crime and Johannesburg , pp. 37 - 40Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2000