Back to the drawing board

When Jimmy — Oops! — Mzwanele Manyi realised there was no way he was going to parliament, he lobbied his friends, including Black First Land First to protest at the IEC results operations centre in Pretoria and demand a rerun. All along he had told anyone who cared to listen that his ATM stokvel would receive no fewer than 2million votes. By Friday, the ATM was struggling to reach 60,000. Who can blame Jimmy? He is not even No 10 on his party’s list for parliament, so the former media owner and Gupta stooge is officially in the unemployment queue.

Is it time for another vendor-financed deal?