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"I might be young, naive, dumb, but I knew what had just happened but I didn't know how to address it and I didn't feel safe to address it." She refused to discuss the incident with him despite repeated attempts. She says he looked to have passed out immediately after the ordeal, then woke up 30 seconds later and claimed to have no recollection of anything that happened. As soon as they went back, she says Jones began to aggressively have sex with her against her will, choking her while behaving violently. Sparkes says she was feeling uncomfortable and asked to return to their accommodation before it began raining. thanks so much 4 everthing Renata!!! xx n." Jones reassured Sparkes' mother everything was fine, texting her "shes in SUCH safe hands. "While I was still under the influence, he convinced me that I should come to Africa instead of him visiting me, it would be much easier and better - but how scary is Africa when I am in Australia getting my drink spiked?" she said.Īccording to emails seen by the Herald, Jones immediately had his assistants arrange Sparkes' first passport and international flights, booking her travel from Brisbane to Cape Town. Sparkes says she woke up to messages from Jones claiming to have spoken privately with her boss to arrange for her to travel to South Africa instead. He never called it spiking, I was poisoned and this 'sped things up'," she said. "He was calling it a 'spell' to heal me, psycho-babble, unhinged messages referring to the spiking as a 'quickening'. On a night when Sparkes had her drink spiked while having a post-work drink with her then boss and housemate, Jones began to change plans while Sparkes was feeling the effects of being drugged. It all seemed too surreal to grasp what was happening so I was very much in the moment and trying to come off like a cool person," Sparkes said. By June 26, he sent explicit photos of himself to Sparkes. The next day, Jones emailed Sparkes insider videos of Die Antwoord with a note: "Just secret k cos u in our clikkkkk xx". I was quite overwhelmed."īy June 23, 2013, Jones sent an email to Sparkes complaining about not being able to reach her by telephone.
I was receiving up to six emails from him per day and I would reply twice. "Within the next couple of days, correspondence became more intense.
"He referred to Yolandi as his little sister, basically disassociated their relationship," Sparkes said. Within 24 hours, she had half a dozen from the then 38-year-old rapper while communication with Visser ground to a halt. Before she could reply, she received a message from Jones. The attention left Sparkes feeling "absolutely overwhelmed and shocked". And every once in a while, from the shadows, a strange goblin-like figure emerged.The email from Visser was sent on June 22, 2013, and read: "yo yo yo skull of foxes!!! wats pumpin ur style is on point! ninja showd me ur tumble blog… i like i like!! he also gun say hi 2 u! will be cool 2 hang & get hi as f- wen i cum 2 aus nxt tym! stay bad! xxx."
I wasn't, however, prepared for this.Ī gangly mohawked geezer with poor prison tattooes spat out staccato machine-gun syllables, interspersed with sharp and disturbing playground chants from a troublingly young and slightly freaky looking schoolie. Hip hop is one of the few music genres that lends itself to regional accents, so I was curious to hear how those strangled Afrikaans vowels would bend themselves round some slick rhymes. So when I got a note telling me to check out this messed up slab of white South African trailer park rap by an act called Die Antwoord, I was intrigued. you're going to love it!" Usually it's just a cat yawning like a man, or a dog throwing up after humping something, but once in a while it's something truly splendid. People are always dropping you emails with links to some YouTube vid saying "I've just found the funniest/best/weirdest thing in the world. Me, I reckon it's a fabulous tool for plain finding stuff out. Folks say it's fragmentalising culture and suching the oozy brains out of the masses.