Drawing on a larger planned monograph titled "Sadness, as Such", this seminar paper is concerned with how the post-apartheid as a structure of feeling has seemingly dissipated as the juridical and chronological definitions of the post-apartheid took root in South Africa. By reconnecting thought and movement, Prof Lalu proposes to return to Athlone, a place of forced removals and cinema, to discover there the outlines of the dream of the post-apartheid. Beyond the violence of apartheid that names Athlone, this is a paper that asks what it would mean to move sadness towards thought, especially as these are encountered in the assemblage of three brothers with imperfect timing: Bruce Lee, Steve Biko and Abdullah Ibrahim. Professor Premesh Lalu, DST/NRF Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities, Centre for Humanities Research, UWC