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MOTHER TONGUE<br />
eviction notice<br />
dear Herrie/Autshumao*<br />
Netherlands 1651<br />
I would hereby like to inform you that I God<br />
or rather Jan van Riebeeck as my mates call<br />
me are coming to take over your land<br />
we the D.E.I.C.° have decided the One-Stop story<br />
is not working out the Cape deserves a lot more you<br />
are the leader of your adorable people but I<br />
am a white man and you will still learn<br />
we are so smart that we have determined why there<br />
are two oceans meeting why there is a<br />
mountain on the tip of Africa that looks like a<br />
table and of course why you “people<br />
of people” had the privilege to live here<br />
so that we with our fabrics feathers fragances wine money<br />
tabacco and education can come here<br />
without resistance and UPLIFT<br />
yes yes I know you’re thinking FUCK UP but that is<br />
not our plan at all we come to teach teach you how<br />
the new world works we are going to build a castle<br />
because I am a king after all we are going to build a fort<br />
to protect us against uhm… er… the enemies<br />
my other mates in the North have a<br />
fantastic buy a male slave and rape a female<br />
for free business model and we’re bringing it to Cape Town<br />
we are going to make the Cape of Good Hope<br />
world-famous everyone will want to be<br />
there everyone will know it is the Cape of the<br />
Company<br />
so Herrie old friend take another swig from the<br />
brandy I sent you<br />
Here comes Jannie<br />
* leader of the Goringhaicona tribe who inhabited the Cape when the D.E.I.C.<br />
arrived in 1652<br />
° Dutch East India Company<br />
From: grond/Santekraam (land/Belongings), Kwela Boeke, 2011<br />
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