Wait starts for Black Jesus second coming
Finally, mini-Mangope goes
Vera knew that the end game was nigh for that mini-Mangope who reigned supreme in the late Tautona’s former stomping ground.
Don’t they say those whom the gods seek to destroy they first make mad or words to that effect?
The writing was firmly on the wall when our man started speaking in tongues, coming up with such gems as “the essence of the absence of the presence”.
The comebak kid?
Yet Vera is a little bit sad at the news, seeing that one of the clowns that helped keep us tickled funny with their buffoonery has departed the stage for good, or has he?
Phela you’ll never know, especially since the fellow is otherwise known as the Black Jesus, despite the obvious absence of anything divinely about him. He might just stage the greatest comeback since Lazarus.
Now that we know that “the essence of the absence of presence” means a man taking early retirement in his 50s, will a few fossils in public office please take a leaf out of the Black Jesus’s book and follow suit?
Iyazwakala lendaba wee Shenge? Are you listening Colonel Dr Irvin Khoza and that bedroom mashesha who keeps fighting you in public only to apologise in private?
Taking a leaf out of Molefe
Despite the sadness of seeing him go, Vera fancies our superman will now have all the time in the world to come up with his (un)quotable quotes by the truckload. Be warned, there is more from where the “essence of the absence of presence” came.
Evidence of that came when he tried to pull a Brian Molefe on us by taking “early retirement” instead of resigning as was asked of him.
What’s in the cocktail?
Blame it all on the waters they served at that phantom address in Saxonwold where all the Guptarites wetted their throats.
Ace up the sleeve
We never knew that Mr Grumpy himself could prove so useful sometimes, did we? Vera was glad poor old Ace found his voice and called the spade what it is, and saw no need to speak in parables ala Supra.
I feel sorry for his missus though, who is going to carry her umbrella now that the perks are out of the window?
A sickly house
Forget about listeriosis, there is a new pandemic that calls for equal alarm and it seems to have chosen Gog’ Baleka’s House for maximum effect.
First to fall was uBaba KaDuduzane’s alleged squeeze; she who used to be chair at SAA. She took ill when her appointed hour in the House came, when she was to face Pravin the Griller.
It may not have a name yet, this not-so-deadly disease, but it’s very effective at keeping the corrupt hiding under a blanket. Vera is of a good mind to call it balekariosis since it makes them run for cover.
Back to school
And now, will someone please school the folks at Home Affairs on matters biology?
A KZN mom is being punished because of the poor understanding of biology and arithmetic by the department’s officials.
Nompumelelo Caluza’s six-yearold second-born daughter is being denied her ID birthright, which means no child-support grant for her. The kid’s fault is that she was born in the same year as her older sister. Caluza gave birth in January 2012, and the perfectly healthy mom was pregnant again weeks later. Even if she had fallen pregnant two months later she was still going to give birth again in 2012.
But tell that to Home Affairs, to them it would be like discussing rocket science in Greek.