Know that deep inside us the war rages still

It's January 22 1901 and social media platforms in SA are feverish with the kind of fuss that crashes servers and causes collisions between ox wagons whose drivers are holding the reins with only one hand because the other is clutching a piece of 3G-enabled telegraph wire. The dots and dashes pulsing through the wire reveal that the dominant hashtag is "#OnsMaIsDood", typically posted after strings of emoticons in increasing states of jubilation.