SUSPICIOUS. Israel Makoe, centre, has to be restrained by Warren Masemola, left, and Percy Matsemela, right.
“I was always around guys who had made it in the township and were feared and respected. I have been to jail; that is where my life changed. My time in jail made me realise that I was going to be in and out of jail for the rest of my life if I did not change my ways.”
The term iNumber Number is also closely linked to jail and it was Makoe who suggested the title to Marsh. Wits PhD candidate Xolani Tembu is writing a thesis titled, “The Performative Nature Of Tsotsi Taals post-Sophiatown: An Observation Of The Evolution Of A Grand ‘Stylect'”. He explains the origin of the term.
“iNumber Number comes from prison creole called shalambombo, which is now known as iscamtho,” says Tembu
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