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    The Hillbrow Election, 1987
    The Hillbrow Election, 1987
    The Hillbrow Election, 1987
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    The Hillbrow Election, 1987

    By Luc Iver de Vil

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    Politics, prostitutes, and the pleasures of challenges; my buddies and I were not into politics, but when the politicians decided to have a contest for our votes, we decided to join in the fun! Damn, you can meet some interesting people, and pretty girls, while canvassing for votes! We turned the General Election in Hillbrow in 1987 into a circus, despite of what the ‘educated’ people across the world wrote in their thesis on this happening, they got it wrong! The National Party hated us for canvassing the homosexual voters, even though the learned people called it a NP strategy years later, it was us, the non-politicians that wanted to prove a point; you can win an election by breaking the rules. Was it worth the criminal records that followed? It was fun!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLuc Iver de Vil
    Release dateOct 30, 2014
    ISBN9781311132178
    The Hillbrow Election, 1987
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    Luc Iver de Vil

    Apparently I was born in a mining village in the old Western Transvaal, South Africa, but my memory does not want to stretch that far back. My dad got into some kind of political trouble, so he moved his family to South West Africa, now Namibia. I had a great childhood in that country, which then was still wild and uncivilized, doing an incredible amount of travelling. Although I did attend school from time to time, most my education I received from my dad while in a Land Rover, or on foot, in the Namib desert or in the bush. When we eventually moved back to South Africa, never staying in the same place very long, I had to attend school full time, What a bore, and if I add up correctly, I actually attended 8 different schools in my life. My dad did settle down and became a farmer, and I was sent to university to further my education, after I did a stint in the SA Navy for my National Service, I quickly learned that to make it in society you have to "Yes and Amen" all those in authority appointed over you, like "cut your hair", "wear a tie and jacket" and "Go to Church". This awoke the family trait of rebelliousness in me, and I got expelled. I started working, first for an international company that built Power Stations, and then one that made and sold computers. This was not for me, so I obtained my Professional Hunting license, and I was off on living my life. Done many things since then, news reporting, construction, smuggling, and even ran a pub among other forms of employment. Went through one marriage, a number of engagements and a list of girlfriends. Have now settled down, farming, like my dad, happily married to a delightful Indian girl, have a beautiful daughter, enjoy writing down my memories and taking my family to the far-off places I had been.

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      The Hillbrow Election, 1987 - Luc Iver de Vil

      THE HILLBROW ELECTIONS, 1987

      By

      Luc Iver de Vil

      The Hillbrow Election, 1987

      By Luc Iver de Vil

      Published by Luc Iver de Vil at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 Luc Iver de Vil

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Authors note: All characters in this work of fiction are 18 years of age and older

      This book is dedicated to all those people that were part of our campaign. My friends, the volunteers, the homosexual community, the illegal immigrants and the escort girls.

      We had fun learning about the duplicity of politicians.

      A special thanks to my wife for doing the hard labour in getting my memories onto paper.

      Preface: Many thesis’ by highly educated individual the world over, with many theories as to why the election, against all expectations, went the National Party’s way.

      To the best of my knowledge none of these people were even in Hillbrow at the time, I was there, I was part of the election as the campaign manager for the winning candidate.

      This is the story of what actually happened, as I remember it...

      THE HILLBROW ELECTIONS, 1987

      Politics and politicians! Now let me get this straight, I do not rate politicians very high, I actually rate them at the same depth that I rate Preachers, Traffic police, Lawyers and Professional Sportsman, all of no benefit to society whatsoever.

      It is not that I never got involved in politics. I did. There are very few areas where one can have as much fun as one can in the comedy of politics. But to put some perspective on my story, I will have to explain the political landscape, as I saw it, back in the latter 1980’s.

      We had a number of political parties strutting their bullshit through South Africa, from the distant right wing to the not so far left. The far lefties were banned, so they

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