Mus die Toyi-Toyi Be Now So Aggresive?

Ooh Jurrie! Daar’s mos ‘n bleddy strike everywhere at die moment in South Africa , ne! Djy weet mos mettie MetroFail ennie SpoorNet en allie bleddy transport sectors, except mos vir Golden Arrow, ennie taxis!

Dis vokken crazy innie Kaap, jong! Die ander dag, I did take ‘n bus vir die eerste tyd in such a long time. I now normaly travel oppie trein, but ja, that was mos impossible laaste week. The bus was mos packed, en daar was stoute kinders that jus made a bleddy noise the whole time! If you’s like me, en djy hou van peace-en-quiet, then you mus know how I did feel! Oppie trein is daar only preachers wat scream en gaan aan about hell, and tell you that you mus get “saved”, ne, or else you mos won’t go to heaven… Ek wietie wat hulle se probleem issie. You mos don’t see ‘n imam preaching en saying djy moet die ways offie prophet Mohammad follow, or else you will mos not go to heaven! Then there’s mos die blind mense wat sing “you pray for me, en I pray for dyou”, as hulle loop downie isle met hulle tin koppie met coins. I mos thank them for praying for me, maar hoekom moet ek pay them, if I’m ginna pray for them also, ne? Haai man, die mense moet dink, yoh!

Anyways, back na die Kaapse srtikes. Have dyou mos seen hulle? Yoh! Hulle mos toyi-toyi met so much agression! Why mus they be so? They mus mos know djy kan do it peacefully of happily.

Back innie dag, Gandhi did now teach us die peaceful weg. Maar mense nie luister nie, they mos don’t look at die verlede, en sien that dit kan mos werk, ne. En what about onse weg? Die stywe-Kaapse weg -soos die Klopse! You mus know, we did mos maak ‘n statement though creating onse own cultural way of protest, met dans, bright clothes, umbrellas, en catzi musiek en woorde.

“Dee-na-ka-naki-naa… Dee-na-dee-na-wooo”.

Dit mos instills a sense of joy through die circumstances. Onse is heppy mense, ne. Die ou government did mos hate onse gelukkige wegge. Agter die Klopse het hulle ding gedoen, there was mos no tyres around necks, en die mense did not want to rol! We did mos gettie punt across, en were heppy heppy!

So, ja, I mos tzallenge die strikers to mos add ‘n bietjie colour, ‘n bietjie cheer, ‘n bietjie unbrellas, en ‘n bietjie catzy liedjies, en  then, they will mos see, en feel die difference! Moenie aggresive wees nie.

What duz die wit hippies se, “Like bru, djy moet make love, not war”, of as my buurvrou, Antie Meryl, translates: “Moenie skattie -naai!”