"I think South Africa is a wonderful country with a great future," she says.
"Just not for white 56-year-old Afrikaans-speaking practitioners of the occult." - HAYIBO
BLOMMELAND. They call her Liewe Heksie but Lavinia is her name. She's the cleverest witch she knows, and she's even been to the moon. But for Liewe Heksie, 56, these words ring hollow. "It sounded much better in Afrikaans," she says. "Now everything is in English or Xhosa." Middle-aged, bitter and disillusioned with the new South Africa, Heksie is emigrating to Australia.
Lavinia is the first to admit that the years have been unkind to her. The dirty blonde fringe is streaked with grey and the black velvet dress is pockmarked with cigarette burns.
"It's been a real struggle since they canned the show," she says, lighting one of the Lucky Strikes that have left her with severe emphysema.
"If I still had the show, flip, oke, I wouldn't be eating pilchards off a Tupperware lid now, genuine."
"I'm not homophobic. It just came as a surprise. So when he said, 'Heksie, ek is 'n gay stoute kabouter!' I said 'Haai oe, Blommie, di's nie mooi nie'.
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