Zuma’s ‘meaningless waffle’ plumbs depths

THREE times in his state of the nation address last Thursday, President Jacob Zuma stressed that SA needed to “ignite” growth and create jobs.

His plan to heat up growth, to set it on fire, was welcomed by some and dismissed by others as a load of hot air.

The Institute of Plumbing SA thought Zuma’s speech was notable for its shallowness and about as useful as a plunger in a bucket toilet. The institute was polite enough not to use the plunger analogy in its reaction to the speech, opting instead to describe it as “17 pages of meaningless waffle”. Someone in the House ought to have had the balls to recite the protest, “Liar, liar, pants on fire, hanging by an Eskom wire”. But National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete might have ruled the protesting poet out of order for suggesting that Eskom was on the bum.