Taste of their own muti

AND then there was Mkhuleko Hlengwa, the young IFP MP who should really be the party’s next leader but will never be as he is not a Buthelezi.

Anyway, according to the register of members’ interests, Hlengwa received gifts from, among others, the “IFP Youth Muti”. Now Hogarth is not into this voodoo stuff, but his young colleagues — who spend too much time watching daily episodes of the TV soapie

Isibaya — swear that in Hlengwa’s neck of the woods you can get the kind of “muti” that wins votes. They claim that is how the Crooner from Nkandla got into power.

Hogarth was about to put in a call to Hlengwa — to ask if he hoped the said “Muti” would soften the IFP life president’s heart and make him anoint Hlengwa as his successor — when parliament issued a statement apologising: IFP Youth Muthi should have read “IFP Youth Mvoti”.