Miekie's Playlist

Kirsty, Mieke and I have grown up together. Over the years we've developed a signature picture...us three, me on the left, Miek in the middle and Kirst on the right. Now this playlist does have the song "You're my best friend"-Queen. I am not using it...well, because friendship is best shown through actions and attitudes, and with the fear of it appearing flat, I left it out.


Instead we are graced with "Die For You"-'Lil Wayne.

I took the "die" in "Die For You", and changed it to "dye".
Dye...for colour. Colour...for apartheid.
South Africa boasts 16 years of freedom, but discrimination is still around. These days, there's a point system for university. 36 points if you're black, 39 if you're coloured, 42 if you're white. That's just one example of one engineering faculty at one university. That means girls I went to school with, was in boarding school with, have an easier chance of getting into a course than me, being white. Due to colour.


I'm not complaining, I get it. something needs to be done. Whether getting there through tertiary education is the way, who knows?
So that's what the message is with the maids:

The message is change.
It's paint by numbers before democracy, and paint by numbers during democracy. Number one is the skin colour. On the left the maid is black, on the right, she is white. 

The next pages deal with money. The face of the old R5 note was that of Jan van Riebeeck, and the R5 coin is a modern coin, with Mandela's face on (limited edition). It shows change.
And change is good, right?