A MAN ’ S HOME IS HIS CASTLE AND HIS KEY POINT
NO COMPOUND INTEREST
HAVE you heard? It is a crime to take pictures of Zumaville. Guess we have to rely on First Lady Thobeka Madiba-Zuma’s Instagram for the photos.
State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele said Zuma’s wonderland has been declared a national key point since 2008 and therefore it is off limits.
MadibaZuma must get a professional photographer. We can’t have her posting those sometimes out-offocus pictures.
Cwele ’ s colleague in the security cluster Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said those who have photos of the homestead may be in possession of classified information. What about the Public Protector’s report? Can we at least photograph that?
But Vera understands, if she were Msholozi, she too would be embarrassed by the pictures of Nkandla. All those tatty mud houses around the R206-million homestead; all that poverty spoils what would otherwise be paradise.
It just shows that you can bring the city to Nkandla but you can’t take the village out of Nkandla. The Pedi king from Sekhukhune in Limpopo was so happy about Patrice Motsepe ’ s generous contribution to communities that he lost his marbles.
Speaking at African Rainbow Minerals Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Trust function in Sandton on Monday, Sekhukhune said in Sepedi: “I am so excited like a man who is meeting a virgin girl for the first time.”
Tjo! Tjo! Tjo!” exclaimed Benny Boshielo, an official of ARM, before translating the foot-in-mouth type speech. Shocking what money can do to the brain.
HOU JOU BEKKERSDAL
AGANG leader Mamphela Ramphele waited until the dust had settled before going to Bekkersdal.
Imagine what all that smoke and fire would have done to her perm.
But on T uesday, with the township dirty and stinking but relatively calm, Ramphele slapped some gel on her hair, that she promised she would urge the mining firms to work towards.
She will find out that voters are more forgiving to an uneducated, polygamous, spendthrift male leader, than to an educated, married-man-loving, rich woman.