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 10 - Office of the Chief of Police
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
QUEENIE sits. JIMMY stands, handcuffed and chained.
QUEENIE: What do you want to see me for, Jimmy?
JIMMY: Come on Queenie, we're old friends.
QUEENIE: You know it's difficult for me.
JIMMY: What do you mean?
QUEENIE: How do you think it looks if I'm seen fraternising with the accused?
JIMMY: Queenie, let's cut the crap. Let's make a deal.
QUEENIE: What can you offer me, Jimmy?
JIMMY: What do you need, Queenie?
QUEENIE: Okay. Let's say I need to know who's crossed the line.
JIMMY: What do mean?
QUEENIE: Which of our comrades, have crossed the line!
JIMMY: What you mean, Queenie, crossed the line?
QUEENIE: You know what I mean!
JIMMY: Do you mean taking a bribe … taking some land cheap … selling off a game park … employing your girlfriend/boyfriend?
QUEENIE: I want to know, which of our soldiers is doing the bank heists.
JIMMY: How would I know?
QUEENIE: Oh come on, Jimmy!
JIMMY: If I do know - and I'm not saying I do know - but if I do know and I tell you, what are you going to do for me, Madame
Chief of Police?
QUEENIE: Here's the deal, Jimmy. Get me stuff I can use and I'll get you a lighter sentence.
JIMMY: Fuck your lighter sentence! I'm out of here or no deal!
QUEENIE: You've got no cards to play, Jimmy.
Silence
JIMMY: You want the secret, I'll tell you the secret. The President can't trust the secret service.
QUEENIE: What do you mean?
JIMMY: You know as well as I do.
QUEENIE: No I don't.
JIMMY: What does the President do when he needs quality information? Information he can believe?
QUEENIE: What do you mean?
JIMMY: Well. Say guns are running from Mozambique to KwaZulu- Natal. Who's running the guns from Mozambique to KwaZulu- Natal? Explosives taken to Cape Town? Who's taking explosives to Cape Town? Someone's bombing the police stations. Who's bombing the police stations?
QUEENIE: It's my job to know this stuff!
JIMMY: And do you know it, Queenie?
Silence
JIMMY: My point exactly. So, what does the President do? The President sets up a secret secret service.
QUEENIE: What?
JIMMY: A secret service inside the secret service.
QUEENIE: You've lost me, Jimmy.
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- Love, Crime and Johannesburg , pp. 26 - 28Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2000