The Gods Must Be Crazy
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1:09:09
Do you speak English?
1:09:10
You are free to remain silent
until you have seen your lawyer.

1:09:14
If you speak now, whatever you say will
be taken down as evidence against you.

1:09:35
And why are you so beautiful?
1:09:38
I got to go to court.
1:09:40
What did you do?
1:09:41
The cops were here. They say they
caught a little Bushman for stock theft.

1:09:46
They say all he can speak is "Xixo,"
so they want me to interpret.

1:09:50
Xixo.
1:09:50
Xixo.
1:09:57
They brought Xi into a place
with several people.

1:10:00
He smiled at them in greeting,
but nobody smiled back.

1:10:14
Interpreter.
1:10:24
You, Xixo, are hereby charged with
wrongfully and unlawfully slaughtering...

1:10:28
...one goat on the 21st of September,
1980, in Oniamatokwe.

1:10:33
How plead you?
Guilty or not guilty?

1:10:36
Mpudi found it difficult to interpret
because, in his language...

1:10:40
...there was no word for "guilty. "
1:10:45
Finally he asked,
"Did you shoot an animal?"

1:10:48
Xi said, "Yes, I did, but that man took it.
He did not want to share it with me. "

1:10:53
-Well, what does he plead?
-Not guilty.

1:10:57
-They gave him the death sentence.
-For killing a goat? No.


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