BEN 10 ACTION AND POLITICAL DYNASTIES
ALL ACTION
EVER wondered how South Africa dishes out nicknames?
It got Vera thinking when she saw the screaming headline about a minister and her alleged young lover.
And there was Vera thinking she’s always been known as Mama Action because of her indefatigable, bring-it-on demeanor to whatever job she is tasked with.
But Vera noticed the moniker could well have been earned through the obvious energy needed to keep up with a Ben 10, these young studs some ladies keep for a pet.
BEWARE OF BEN 10s
But a word of advice one former minister with similar tendencies, as Juju is wont to call any unbecoming behaviour, was tripped up by a Ben 10 to whom she abdicated the running of her department. Does the name Dinah Pule ring any bells, heh Mama Action? The last time Vera heard of or saw her was when Pule soiled her Christian Louboutins beating a dusty trail as she headed off into the sunset in disgrace, never to be seen again. Beware of these Ben 10s, they are no good beyond the great action between the sheets. Still on nicknames and the indefatigables, Vera was reminded of a colleague, who shall remain nameless, whose energy could put Mama Action to shame. Duracell was the perfect tag they put on the dear colleague, because the rabbit in the advert they ran, ran, ran, ran ran, ran, ran the entire day when everybody else was struggling.
THROW AWAY THE MIC
Will someone please starve this Sechaba character of the microphone unless the agreement is laid down beforehand that all he can do with it is sing! The musician should leave Lundi alone and return to the studio and record music. After the microphone was silenced at Lundi’s memorial to shut off his rants, he came up with a claim that his father has some healing powers of Biblical proportions and would have cured Lundi at the drop of a hat.
NEW-AGE DYNASTIES
What is it with our politicians? Is the taste or even a whiff of power so strong that they never ever want to let go. This has been Africa’s lot since the continent tried dabbling with this thing called democracy.
We are all democrats as long as we are fighting to get elected. When we need to let go of power then the greedy, selfish side comes to the fore. That’s especially the case when there are skeletons to keep hidden.
TROUBLE IN THE ROYAL HOUSE
Vera has noted there’s a little skirmish in Mntwana’s party as the realisation hits home that maybe he won’t anymore due to the ravages of age.
Thing is, as with the Msholozis of Nxamalala as far as Khongolose is concerned, the Buthelezi clan seems to think that they are the party. Vera gathers it is a Buthelezieat-Buthelezi war there as uMntwana has reportedly had a fallout with one Mzamo Buthelezi who is vying for the throne against the anointed Thulasizwe Buthelezi. these make-believe 21st century dynasties, I give up. 2019 Then there is the madness the other side of the northernmost river of Mzansi. There the makhulu madam has declared that Mad Bob, at the sprightly young age of 93, will stand again for the presidency even if it means he does so as a corpse. Speaking in Shona, Grace Mugabe reportedly told a cheering mass of the great unwashed at a rally: “If God decides to take him, then we would rather field him as a corpse.”