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Scene 4 - The Prison Cell.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2019

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Before JIMMY knows it, BONES SHIBAMBO is in the cell BONES is a large gangster of a man, in his late fifties. He wears a suit that comes straight out of Sophiatown.

BONES: Jimmy, my leitie! ﹛my youngster!)

JIMMY: Papa Bones!

The two men dance a ritual greeting.

BONES: Jimmy ‘Long Legs’ Mangane!

JIMMY: Papa Bones!

BONES: Jimmy, my tsotsi! ﹛my ganster!)Wh&Vs my motto, my leitie?

BONES AND JIMMY: … dom dink ﹛dumb thinking) and blunders is never my policy!

They chuckle.

BONES: In tooge se dai (In the old days) in the days of Saratoga where the birds flew backwards, brains and brawn?

JIMMY: They not buddies!

BONES: Dom dink and blunders?

JIMMY: Never, never my policy!

BONES: Kom, sit! (Come sit!)

BONES and JIMMY sit

BONES: What are you, a fool? What are you doing here? My slim sharp leities slaap nie in die tronk nie! (My smart youngsters don't sleep in jail!)

JIMMY: Baba Bones, you know I'm not guilty!

BONES: Guilty or not guilty - here you sit wearing a badge of prisoner! Is this what I taught you?

JIMMY: Bones …

BONES: I taught you honour, style, professionalism! And now! In die tronk! The top of the body stays the brain, below the navel, Emzanza Afrika, (Below Africa) you find the land of temptation and blunders!

JIMMY: This has nothing to do with my Sqeezas, Baba! (My girlfriends, Father)

BONES: Don't you call me Baba! Am I your flesh and blood? No! And now you just a moegoe! (stupid fool)

JIMMY: Sorry, Baba!

BONES: If you got a puppy, and it's got a worm, you take the worm out! Am I right?

JIMMY: Baba, you're right!

BONES: When you were a puppy, you got a sex worm, and I never managed to get it out!

JIMMY: DiBones, I've been framed!

BONES: Masipa, man! (Shit, man)

JIMMY: It's true!

BONES: Politics het gekom en het verby, die Luthulis, en die Jan Smuts, en al daa'ie kak. April’ 94 het gekom, Mandela het gekom, en die hele wereld het gedans.

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Publisher: Wits University Press
Print publication year: 2000

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