Ahead of our time. That must be it

What do you do when you yapped incessantly about how your party would change the face of parliament, but the number of people who voted for you can’t even fill up your local shebeen? In the case of the Black First Land First party, you blame everyone else, from white monopoly capitalists to the IEC, for your lazy campaigning and crazy policy propositions. Andile Mngxitama, the loony leading the party, was at his most animated at the results centre when it became apparent that the voters had rejected his stokvel.

“I still hope for a miracle. It will be a great pity if our people didn’t put us in parliament. Of course, what it means is that perhaps our people are not yet ready for us,” he wailed. Nah … the people can spot a con artist fast.