DOING THE TSHATSHA ESIDIMENI-STYLE NOT ON
WEEK SHASHALAZA
VERA was all for the idea of dispensing some communication advice to Babe we Shashalazi but was so hopelessly overtaken by the turn of events, thanks by and large to the same crowd.
There I was, ready to lecture that phumasilwe of a spokeswoman about why sometimes silence speaks louder than any spoken word. Communication is much more than literally saying something.
But on second thoughts, Vera reckons Shashalazini should have kept to those wise words about silence being golden after all.
KEEP THEM SEALED
They called a press conference that initially had Vera salivating about getting Smallernyana Skeletons to say something about the mess at Sassa.
A few days earlier Vera caught up with Phumasilwe on the wireless where she was preaching that Badakiwe’s silence amid the cacophony didn’t mean she was not doing anything, nor that she didn’t care about what everyone could see is a looming crisis.
In Vera’s opinion, she should just have kept those humungous lips of hers totally zipped and double sealed.
Worse was still to come at the presser where our female version of dumb and dumberer connived to remove any doubt of their sanity. Don’t we have here a twin case for Esidimeni, Vera wonders.
Noticed how Smallernyana read that speech Namba Wan-style, one letter at a time. So Nkandla has serious competition on that front, from friendly fire
GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER
Then just for control, as millennials are given to saying, Phumasilwe agrees to an interview on an English language station and would only speak in Xhosa, just to cloud the real issue, and she got away with it. The Baritone would have done well to call Phumasilwe’s bluff and roast her in any language of her choice and expose her for what she is. Now, after all the drama, we are none the wiser about what’s really going on at the ministry of Tshatshalazini. Maybe Baritone was taking heed of the saying, just in case he would have been required to untangle one messy knot only to create another.
It was by no means the end to Shashalazini Week when Badakiwe went to Gogo Baleka’s crowd to explain herself and did what she does best there, muddying the waters even more.
But there was the People’s Bae ready to tuck in, reminding Badakiwe that was no house of prayer where she’d just have her say and plonk off after an “Amen”. That’s life on Planet Tshatshalazini, a satellite of Planet
Zuma. And what was that police spokesman going on about charging a dead man with attempted murder after the hostage drama in Soweto on Wednesday?
Vera will be the first to admit that she’s no legal eagle but that, by any stretch of the imagination, is beyond the ludicrous.
Is that why they say the law is an ass?