Ice-cream war breaks out in the ANC

THOSE whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. So said 5th-century Greek dramatist Euripides (or should we credit it as an Igbo proverb? One is never sure in this age of decolonisation). Anyway, judging by the public spats involving senior ANC leaders, the gods are turning Luthuli House into cloudcuckoo-land.

First we had the party’s disgraced and ousted Western Cape leader, Marius Fransman, writing a very long love letter extolling the virtues of the controversial and (maybe) soon-to-be-ousted Nelson Mandela Bay party leader, Andile Lungisa.

Bizarrely, Uncle Gweezy responded by telling Fransman to “go sell ice cream”. To which Fransman responded by promising to select 50 people he would train to be “the best ice-cream sellers in South Africa”.

Hogarth can already see an Apprentice-style TV show where Fransman schools the contestants on how to sell ice cream as they drive around the country in an ice-cream kombi. Perhaps, as each contestant gets voted out, their ice-cream bell could be taken away.