CAPE TOWN. The DA Students Organisation on Monday unveiled a controversial new recruitment poster vowing to work tirelessly for a future South Africa in which two consenting adults of different races are permitted to have sexual intercourse. “This is just the beginning,” said DASO councillor Feetus Sprogg. “Next step: benches everyone can sit on.”
The DASO campaign launch on Monday saw an estimated seven to nine people gather at the Mugg and Bean in Cavendish Square to mark the release of new membership posters and plot an ongoing strategy.
“Naturally, we’re very proud of our initial poster,” said DASO Marketing representative Litlun de Jong. “We actually flew the two American models you see in the picture to Swaziland for the shoot, because we believed that would be safer, given the circumstances.”
De Jong was unrolling a copy of the poster for journalists to see when DASO Surfing and Laserquest rep Jono Unfinking-Priviluj grabbed it from his hands warningly.
“Not here bru, are you mad?” He hissed. “I don’t feel like busting your ass out of Robben Island if they catch you with this thing.”
DASO said that Monday’s poster was just the first of a planned series. The second, to go on release late this week, will simply feature an image of a red pencil, with the slogan: “In OUR future, pencils will be for writing with, not verifying your race.”
“I know it’s pretty out there, but the whole point is to get people shocked and surprised and discussing these issues,” said de Jong. “These posters are going to be everywhere, from outside the Cinema Nouveau on the bottom floor of Cavendish to the Stuttafords two floors up.”
Unfinking-Priviluj said that the campaign was aimed at jolting South Africans out of their complacency into a realisation that another way of life was possible.
“This is the beginning of a revolution, bru,” he said. “We envisage a future South Africa in which my domestic worker Gladys is able to walk the streets freely without being frisked and asked for her papers.”
He clarified: “I mean, walk the streets freely but purposefully, since she still needs to be at my house by 9.30am to roll her sleeves up! Those digs-party wineglasses aren’t going to wash themselves.”
Unfinking-Priviluj admitted that certain former drafts of the posters had had to be scrapped.
“We did this awesome one of a black dude walking through the doors of a popular Cape Town bar,” he said. “But then we were like, woah, pump the brakes, this shit is getting like science fiction.”
