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When I was in the mines...
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...we had this boss.
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He worked us like we were animals.
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Put us on double shifts.
:20:30
Cut our food in half.
:20:34
One day...
:20:35
...he crossed the line.
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And he took a whip
to one of the miners.
:20:41
Before we knew it,
we were on him.
:20:43
A crowd of us...
:20:45
...beating him with shovels, stones,
anything we could get our hands on.
:20:51
That night...
:20:53
...we were asleep in the hostel...
:20:55
...when this army
of company men smash in...
:20:59
...with guns, and clubs and chains.
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By the next morning,
five miners were dead.
:21:07
I'd have torched the whole
fucking mine down.
:21:11
And then...
:21:13
...they'd have gunned
down all the miners.
:21:17
Then what?
:21:18
What's been gained?
:21:22
Maybe nothing.
:21:23
But the longer we sit still
and have Afrikaans
:21:26
jammed down our throats,
the more powerless we'll become.
:21:29
Then pretty soon there
won't be a movement.
:21:31
We will all be speaking Afrikaans.
:21:34
I say we don't have time
anymore for the baas' school.
:21:37
So we can speak the baas' language.
So we can die in this fucking township.
:21:42
Solomon.
:21:44
No one questions what you want.
:21:48
The question is how best to get it.