Know the Beloved Country, Part 6

The Swinging Sixties might have swung like an army of chimps on speed elsewhere in the world but, here in South Africa, life under apartheid was about as titillating as being stuck in a lift (elevator) with Margaret Thatcher. I hinted at this when I described what is was like being a teenager exploding with testosterone while the Nat government’s morality police ran around slapping black stars on every bared nipple they could find. But I didn’t do justice to the level of depravity to which the apartheid regime stooped to ensure that nobody, absolutely nobody, had any fun at all. You’ve got to check out this…
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