John Citizen, white and Afrikaans, is introduced to a panoply of State aparatuses at his disposal – the departments of Water, Pensions, Works, Labour, even SAA. The ideas, like the music, are brutally spliced, the lack of subtlety is revealing.

In describing the work of Native Affairs the voice-over is at its most euphemistic. Mrs Citizen checks ‘whether her servant has his reference book’. This is the only role in which Black people feature in this world.