NEVER-ENDING QUEST FOR RECOGNITION AND REWARD
A GUPTA SCORES AGAIN
LIAR MAYBE, PLAYER NO
The mudslinging has began between Economic Freedom Fighter Julius Malema and his former comrades in the ANCYL. The league’s Gauteng chairman Lebogang Maile called Juju a womaniser, drunkard and liar, reacting to Juju’s comment that the ANC heads were arrogant.
Of all the insults, Juju took the most offence to being called a womaniser.
I am not a womaniser; I am a 32-year-old man with one child. I do not have a girlfriend,” he said
Maile is 33-years old or more with no less than six children. He is expecting twins as we speak.”
Who is expecting twins, please do tell, Juju? Is it the wife, mistress or girlfriend?
ONE MAN S KRAAL ...
There’s something about the isiZulu word isibaya , which means a kraal, that fascinates Vera. Yes, the soapie is powerful and has great actors. Vera thinks it’s the title that popularised the soapie.
But forget the soapie, Vera is more interested in the real-life story about isibaya , which was set in motion the moment the world learnt the other meaning of the word.
It was when all eyes were glued on No 1 – who was then Accused No 1 in a rape case.
He went into the dock and told the world sensational details about entering a woman’s father’s kraal – isibaya sika baba wakhe
ijazi kamkhwenyana
ijazi, another woman’s father’s kraal – again without ijazi – and this woman later bore him a child. Sadly, this woman did not make the cut as one of the wives.
And now, reports have emerged about another isibaya . No 1 has built a R1-million kraal with money taken from the national kraal, the fiscus.
Even the Public Investment Cooperation, which manages government employees ’ pension funds, has Isibaya, a division worth R50-billion.
You get the gist: isibaya is clearly a loaded word.
Vera ’ s question of the week: When will International Relations Minister Maite NkoanaMashabane congratulate Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on her appointment as UN Women executive director?