giant steps featuring rhamncwa
Bra’ Geoff Mphakati : Ah you could never live in South Africa and be involved in the arts and not have a political dimension or dynamic - unless you were unconscious of course!
Lefifi Tladi: I told this priest I was dreaming of God yesterday. I remember his name, Father Mathias; and he was asking me “how did he look like?” I said “no she was black!” and he got so angry and said, “that was the Devil’s wife you were dreaming of!” (laughter) Can you imagine! “That wasn’t God, actually have you seen a black angel in your life?” And I was just seven years. I said “no father”, he said “that’s why we only preparing you to get to the less hellish part of hell. Heaven, you’re not going!” (laughter)
Bra’ Geoff Mphakati: I remember in the sixties I walked into the OK Bazaars in Pretoria and I said to the sales lady… I don’t even know what the item was that I wanted, so I tell her, I tell her in English, so the first thing she does is she turns around and says, “Can’t you speak Afrikaans?” So instead of answering her that I can actually speak Afrikaans, I started asking for that item in three or four of the indigenous languages and then she said, “What are you saying?” Then I said to her,” I’m doing you a big favor, I’m talking to you in a language that isn’t my own language, and you dare to ask me to speak Afrikaans? And now I’ve asked you for the item that I wanted in four of our Indigenous languages and you haven’t understood me. You are ungrateful!”
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