A Dry White Season
“How long they’d known him, what they knew about his politics, his activities and interests, his association with Gordon Ngubene; whether they were aware of his “regular” visits to Soweto; whether they ever visited him and, if so, whether they had ever met blacks in his home, etc.Young Viviers was the first to come back to Ben to tell him all about his interview. “But I told them straight they were wasting their time, Oom Ben. I said quite a few things, I think, which they should have been told ...a long time ago.”“I appreciate it, Viviers. But—”The young man was too agitated to wait for him to finish. “Then they started asking questions about myself too. Whether I was ‘co-operating’ with you. What I knew about the ANC and so on. In the end they became all fatherly and said to me: ‘Mr Viviers, you come from a good Afrikaans family. We can see you have strong feelings about things. Well, it’s a free country and every man is entitled to his own views. But there’s one thing you’ve got to realise: it’s people like you the Communists are looking for.MoreLess
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