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favourite place = =
346. Clarence = = I, I really remember this one, this one letter that you got from, from, from Fairways as
well – “We really do not decant our brandy. It’s not true.” It’s P4.
Music followed by The Beautiful Game (a soccer show), adverts and more music.
347. Clarence It’s 104.9, the heart and soul of Cape Town. Of course done by Chicago and Peter Sentera.
Done by Versus this time. They’ve stuck a bit of a funky new beat to it – “If you leave me
now you take away the biggest part of me.” It is the very last, uh, performance, appearance =
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348. Suster = = Broadcast, Clarence. Broadcast. Performance – ek perform ‘ie (nie) hierso nie {I don’t
perform here}. You know. My last l, my last l- , live performance was last night. What a
wonderful show I had.
349. Clarence Is it?
350. Suster Two hun-, two hundred people. Very warm, receptive, ah, you know. I went bos {wild},
bananas, die varkies is los {the pigs are on the loose}, you understand? And I went all over
the place and people really sort of (). It sort of became a little emotional for me = =
351. Clarence = = Could you see the shock on the people’s faces? How a big man like you transforms into a
[laughter] an agony aunt is an absolutely amazing phenomenon. Anyway we’ve got some
guests in the studio and they just looked quite shocked when you burst there into your
tantrum, Suster. Go on. [laughter]
352. Suster [laughter] No man Clarence man. It’s like a, be nice to Suster day today. Its, its like the
minutes are counting till three ‘o clock so, you know, really, work with me Clarence.
353. Clarence Okay.
354. Suster Because if you don’t, by two ‘o clock, gat (gaan) ek jou klap, man {I’m going to smack
you, man} .You understand = =
355. Clarence = = I, I , I get the feeling there’s a lot you wanna get off your chest so maybe I should just sit
back = =
356. Suster = = No, no, I think, why don’t you just conversate?
357. Clarence Conversate?
358. Suster Conversate.
359. Clarence Okay, () conversate.
360. Suster Moet, moet, moenie worry nie {Don’t worry}. Let’s take that call there.
361. Clarence You wanna take this call.
362. Suster Ja {Yes}. P4, good day.
363. Caller 1 Hi. Can I please speak to Suster?
364. Suster Speaking.
365. Caller 1 Suster = =
366. Clarence = = You wanna conversate with Sus- = =
367. Caller 1 = = I want to ask you, are you emigrating?
368. Suster NO, meisie {girl}, I’m not emigrating. Now, now – just in case there’s more questions
coming up – I’m not emi-, emigrating. No, I’m not pregnant, um, will never be, um, no I
have () Its just, I, I’ve just re-focussing my, my, my lifestyle = =
369. Clarence = = your energy.
370. Suster My energies in the, in the direction of business. My head has always been in business, so,
you know, the broadcasting unfortunately just took up a little bit of that space, you
understand, en die clients is ‘n bietjie, ‘n bietjie op my gat {and the clients are a bit, a bit
on my case}, understand, cos they want to really get my attention and, and splitting it
between broadcasting and that … something had to give. Unfortunately, my sweetheart.
371. Caller 1 Okay, but listen, we’re gonna miss you hey.
372. Suster I’m gonna miss this broadcasting thing tremendously, you understand = =
373. Caller 1 = = is it?
374. Suster () You know, the good thing is I, I, I’ll most probably still be friends with Clarence. Maybe
until Christmas but () that’s about it, you know.
375. Caller 1 Okay, you keep well hey Suster.