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Bandiet 119: Ag, man, just don’t carry so much tobacco around.at ag!, excl.
Bandiet 119: Ag, man, just don’t carry so much tobacco around. Bandiet 120: The bale would be broken up into about a dozen ‘arms’, each of which sold for as much as the original bale. Sometimes the ‘arms’ themselves were sub-divided into ‘fingers’ which would sell for as much as 25p.at arm, n.
Bandiet 126: Those were the days [...] when you knew where you were in the boop, when you didn’t have to betray all your friends to get to B group and arse-lick your way to A group.at arse-lick, v.
Bandiet 120: A ‘bale’ of boom could be bought on the black market outside for about 50p.at bale, n.
Bandiet 8: An Afrikaans word [...] no longer in official use because considered derogatory. Unofficially – i.e. in common use throughout South African jails – a prisoner is called a bandiet. Plural bandiete.at bandiet, n.
Bandiet 184: I was in full prison uniform [...] plus hand-cuffs – ‘bangles’.at bangle, n.
Bandiet 217: The fault of ‘betogers’/demonstrators, long-haired demonstrators who were buggering up the tour with smoke-bombs and whistles and demos and everything.at betoger, n.
Bandiet 124: Thys Jakobs was assaulted by the mad boer du Plessis. Head-Warder du Plessis was boss of Moulders [...] and was an avowed Bible-puncher. He also had an uncontrollably violent temper.at bible-puncher (n.) under bible, n.
Bandiet 139: We were close enough to Womens’ to hear [...] one who always screamed ‘Bliksem/Bitch!’.at bliksem!, excl.
Bandiet 8: Boop means prison.at boep, n.1
Bandiet 8: Warders are known, among bandiete, as boere – singular boer. The term is generic for all warders, whatever language they speak [...] Boere dislike being called boere.at boer, n.
Bandiet 132: He emerged, pale and spiny, from his month’s cool-off in the Bom.at bom, n.
Bandiet 119: ‘Boom’ is an Africaans term for ‘dagga’, the South African pot or marijuana .at boom, n.2
Bandiet 131: Most groups of bandiete planning a break from the courts liked to take with them one ‘hasie/bum-boy’ (homosexual): it was easier for him to ‘bottle’ the key. [...] To ‘bottle’ something is to hide it up your arse.at bottle, v.3
Bandiet 123: The nine-to-never indeterminate sentence (known as a ‘coat’ after the blue coat originally worn by habituals).at coat, n.
Bandiet 126: We had all been sentenced for actions arising out of our opposition to apartheid. [...] The bandiete at Central called us simply ‘the kommies’.at commie, n.
Bandiet 120: The bale would be broken up into about a dozen ‘arms’, each of which sold for as much as the original bale. Sometimes the ‘arms’ themselves were sub-divided into ‘fingers’ which would sell for as much as 25p.at finger, n.
Bandiet 153: Dopey was a young bandiet [...] who had once been a keen and very proficient boxer, but he got hammered silly in a series of boxing matches in jail.at hammer, v.1
Bandiet 131: Most groups of banfiete planning a break from the courts liked to take with them one ‘hasie/bum-boy’ (homosexual): it was easier for him to ‘bottle’ the key. [...] To ‘bottle’ something is to hide it up your arse.at hasie, n.
Bandiet 154: Central [prison] society was clearly divided into two categories: ‘hawks’ and hasies/rabbits. The hawks were the sexual predators: hasies were their partners.at hawk, n.1
Bandiet 106: Then there is Central Prison, Pretoria, the maximum security jail for white criminals. [...] Cold Stone Jug is what Herman Bosman called it.at stone jug, n.1
Bandiet 143: He could point a finger at him and shout ‘kaffir!’ The young black man smiled.at kaffir, n.
Bandiet 156: ‘Lizas’ – things to lie with. [...] Another bandiet made a hole in the side of a cupboard which he lined with cloth. Another had a special tin-can with a hole in it.at liza, n.
Bandiet 121: Informers – ‘narks’ as they were called, in Afrikaans or English [...] were an essential part of the whole system of control as practised at Central.at nark, n.1
Bandiet 121: The authorities maintained control very largely through narks and narking.at nark, v.1
Bandiet 123: The nine-to-never indeterminate sentence (known as a ‘coat’ after the blue coat originally worn by habituals).at nine to never (n.) under nine, n.
Bandiet 32: ‘And you?’ ‘Oh, me. sabotage.’ [...] ‘Oh that’s bad, man, that’s a bad pinch, man.’.at pinch, n.
Bandiet 75: We would be interviewed by the psychos.at psycho, n.
Bandiet 154: Central [prison] society was clearly divided into two categories: ‘hawks’ and hasies/rabbits. The hawks were the sexual predators: hasies were their partners.at rabbit, n.1
Bandiet 119: It was impossible to gauge how many boom-rokers/boom smokers there were at the Central but [...] my impression was that a fairly large percentage of the bandiete were ‘rokers’.at roker, n.
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