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LETTER
Evita joins the Native Club
26/06/2006 10:43 - (SA)
I was invited to join The Native Club last week, so that should put paid to
all those horrible rumours that The Native Club is racist, ie for black
intellectuals only.
I know that to many a blacks-only thing sounds terribly familiar, but in a
democratic multiracial society, we have the right to decide. Jews choose
their kosher-only clubs, Muslims choose their halaal-only mosques, while
gays choose their pienk-en-leer-alleen bars.
Patricia de Lille's friends meet in a garage.
So why shouldn't blacks have their own place?
In the past it was called the township, a bantustan or the jail. But now it
is a beautiful elegant venue that has all the best in catering facilities,
comfort and security.
They deserve it, siestog.
After centuries in pigstyles and mud, horror and homelands, allow our black
people their comforts and confidence.
I was thrilled to be invited by Chairperson Titus Mafolo to join his Native
Club.
I said: "But I'm not black."
He said: "No, Evita, you're a white Afrikaner racist."
I said: "Not a racist, Titus, just a citizen."
He laughed.
I said: "But do you see me as an intellectual?"
He said no.
I then explained to him that we started the Afrikaner Broederbond for
Afrikaner Intellectuals, but that it took five years to find one. Eventually
we just lied.
I said to him: "Comrade Mafolo, don't be shy. Learn from us in the old
National Party. BEE has shown that you know what you're looking for."
Of course, as a white Afrikaner woman I won't be in the hallowed halls of
black intellectual power.
I will be in The Native Club Kitchen.
No native wants to have that job any more.
I will organise the menu and believe me, it's already become a nightmare.
I've prepared all the traditional nice Native Cuisine, but now I'm told they
all want is the latest in French, Chinese and Mongolian fare. Maybe I can
sneak a putupap-souffle in with the sushi and the Atkins Diet?
So stop attacking The Native Club.
If you don't like it, form your own. That's what democracy is all about:
anyone can do it, if you can afford it and be intellectual enough to
understand the small print."
Evita Bezuidenhout
Darling
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