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pursuing a new life in canada, whether MG Buthelezi would
still have made an issue of the “page make-up and layout
design generally”.
The next weekend came my private proof of the finality of
change. I was invited to speak at Defence college’s year-end.
What a glorious occasion: medals and epaulettes and every
regimental colour, the only time that menfolk outshine their
women. When I touched on old tensions like how the Navy had
booted me out and their civil service cousins had come up with
two bannings for advocating universal franchise, the generals
were aggrieved: no, no, nothing like that had ever happened.
It was, it is, a new nation. Some other century, some other
place, the second course of democracy will get served up, and
become a platitude. Meantime, I’m home, content.