BARROOM POETRY
HUMOR BLOG: South African Elections 2009, a view from 20 years agoIn the 80’s, when I was a student in Cape Town, graffiti art was brilliant. Walls were like daily newspapers of underground public sentiment. Some of the my favourites included:
“You ANC Nothing Yet!”
…and …
“Better Rands than Roubles!”
…which was soon amended to …
“Better Roubles than Rubble!”
There were regular protest marches through the city streets. The police cracked down in a variety of ways, usually with simple brute force, but realising that many protesters were escaping the sjambokking, they came up with an innovation. Water cannons sprayed purple dye at the crowd. The idea being that cops could then round up the indelibly marked “Kommuniste” at their leisure.
That night someone painted the wall near where I Iived…
“The Purple Shall Govern!”
And in 2009, over twenty years later, as I walked away from the polling station, looking at the ink on my thumbnail that proved I had voted, I realised that graffiti artist was a pretty damn accurate prophet too.
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