This performance was recorded at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg towards the end of the season, so the material covers our politics between the years 1980 and 1982. Over 30 years ago, apartheid was alive and well and growing, with P.W. Botha as our Prime Minister. South Africa had laws: the Immorality Act, the Mixed Marriages Act, the Pass Laws and the Group Areas Act. Piet Koornhof was Minister of Constitutional Development and there was a Censor Board. Barbara Woodhouse was training dogs the Woodhouse way, Dr Andries Treurnicht left the National Party and started the Conservative Party, the brown stain of the Info Scandal was still fresh on the carpet. Pik Botha was already Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winnie Mandela was a banned person, Nelson Mandela was in prison somewhere on an island, and international sanctions were nibbling, but not yet biting. It was also illegal to quote anyone with ANC connections, but let's face it, during the 1980's to most of us whites ANC meant Anti-Nuptial Contract. So Look back, not in anger but with humour. After all, we're still here. So as long as we can laugh at our past fears, those future fears will hopefully never become fearful again.

• published: 20 Oct 2014
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