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speaker}. En toe stoot hy nou die mic in my direction, vir my sê () “Get rid of the woman.”
Toe dink, dink ek aan myself, haai heene, daar sit ekke (ek) nou {So I thought to myself,
oh gosh, here I’m sitting now}. Ek {I}, I mean, ek ken nie die mense nie {I don’t know the
people}. Ek het niks te doen met {I have nothing to do with}, I had no desire to be on radio
verstaan jy {you understand}. Ek het nou nog ’ie (nie) desire om op radio te wies ’ie (wees
nie) {I still don’t have a desire to be on radio}. And, um, he then, just pushed the mic and he
says, “Do something” and … I spoke. And I spoke in this voice … and I told her where to get
off the bus, where to get off the kar {car} or the taxi, die {the} bicycle. You know, I just told
her basically where to get off. But, the more the more I was talking, it, it became more
laughable – en het ’ie (nie) gewiet (geweet) wat la-, laughing matters all about is ’ie (nie)
{and I didn’t know what laughing matters are all about}. En toe ek nou opkyk {And when I
now looked up}, toe, toe ek nou vir my like, to come to my senses, toe lag ‘ie (die) vrou op
‘ie (die) {when I like came to my senses, so the woman was laughing on the phone} phone
and Clarence is laying on the ground laughing. Because I had no idea what I said, what was
so funny. Uh, in the meantime, the CD came to a dead stop because, you play music in a
studio, it, uh, it runs, the time runs backwards. It’s a four minute CD, so like four to zero. En
toe hy opkyk toe sien hy zero daar {And when he looked up he saw zero there} and
basically, there was nothing on air en al wat hy kan doen is {and all that he could do was}
to press the, the live button, which is the green button, which I didn’t know anything about
buttons. Ek ken nou nog ’ie (nie) goeters van buttons ‘ie (nie), verstaan jy {I still don’t
know anything about buttons, you understand}? And … my voice then went out live for all =
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567. Clarence = = and the rest is history.
568. Suster And the rest is history. And why, how, how it came about – somebody asked him, “Who’s in
the studio with you?” in that same programme. En al wat hy kan sê is {And all that he could
say is}, “It’s my sister.” Well. Lo and behold, there I was born. I was bred en daar gat
(gaan) ons aan {and there we went}. And so many years later its time to say goodbye = =
569. Clarence = = and she says you’re the only real thing on radio [laughing]
570. Suster Ja {Yes}, she says I’m the only real thing. Mmm.
571. Caller 10 Hallo Suster.
572. Suster P4 good day. Yes, meisie {girl}.
573. Caller 10 Die’s (die is) {This is} brother NAME, hoe gaan dit {how is it going}?
574. Suster Broer {Brother} NAME, girlfriend = =
575. Caller 10 = = ()
576. Suster () Gat (gaan) dit nog lekker waar jy kyk {Is it still going well where you are}?
577. Caller 10 Dit gat (gaan) nog duidelik (slang, direct translation = clear) in die Kaapstad () {It is still
going well in Cape Town.}
578. Suster Is ‘it (dit)? Is ‘it (dit)? Is ‘it (dit) {Is it? Is it? Is it?}?
579. Caller 10 Kyk hier, ek wil net hê jy moet net ‘n, ‘n {Look here, I just want you to, a, a} request,
want ek werk moes hier vir {I work here for a}, um, ‘n {a} call center, sien jy {you see}?
580. Suster Mmm.
581. Caller 10 Net vir ‘ie (die), is ‘n blinde {Just for the, it’s a blind} call centre … met blinde mense,
sien jy {with blind people, you see}?
582. Suster [laughter] Richard, die {the} way daai nou sound is it {that now sounds} (). Okay, is
blinde mense wat die phone handles by die call centre {Okay, its blind people that handle
the phones at the call centre}.
583. Caller 10 Dis (Dit is) korrek, ja {That’s correct, yes}.
584. Suster Is ’ie (nie) ‘n blinde call centre nie {It’s not a blind call centre} = =
585. Caller 10 = = ek noem ‘it (dit) ‘n blinde {I call it a blind}call centre, man {man}.
586. Suster Okay.
587. Caller 10 [laughter]
588. Suster Okay, so, so niemand, nie een van julle wiet (weet) waar ’ie (die) call centre is ’ie (nie)
{so, so nobody, not one of you know where the call centre is}? [laughter]
589. Caller 10 [laughter] En, dan wil ek hê jy moet net vir Meneer Potgieter … net vir hom se dat
NAME sê hallo {And then I would like you to tell Mister Potgieter, just tell him that NAME