Huge Changes

This is my friend H. – a smoking, drinking, swearing, God-fearing man (he has great respect for “The Big Man”). He has a three-wheel pickup, as I do (behind him in the photo). He told me that we are facing huge changes in South African politics. I said, “What do you mean?” He opened up a writing pad, and began to sketch on it, as follows: 1990. His hometown had one undertaker, and two hearses (one for Blacks, one for Whites). 1998 (the year he left there). The town had thirteen undertakers, and twenty hearses. The original two were still in full demand – as were all the others (here he gave me a description of what the cemeteries looked like over the weekends). He said, “You see what I mean?”