South Africa

So I see the good times are still rolling in Cape Town. If you’re guessing by good times I mean chairs are being thrown around and knives are being drawn on the Mayor – you’re definitely on top of your game! Democracy (SA style of course) is truly on the march in Western Cape where democratic principles like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association are ably protected and defended by the ruling party :

 

Max Ozinsky, deputy secretary for the ANC in the Western Cape, said Zille had visited the area without telling the ANC councillor, Elese Depoutch, or the party's leadership about it. "She has been working in the area for the past six or seven years, and she has always supported those who disrupted the ANC meetings," said Ozinsky

Come now Max, tell us what you were really thinking…

“That cow, Zille dared to venture into our bastion of ANC meritocracy, who the hell does she think she is? The most esteemed Comrade Manto??” (my mistake, that last sentence contained an oxymoron - Manto meeting any part of her constituency is like the Pres. admitting he made some mistake in policy.)

Speaking of the Prez, I see he decided to issue for the following royal edict statement

 

“Today, we need to ask ourselves whether we, cadres of our movement, are still upholding the unimpeachable track record of Ellen Khuzwayo and other past ANC cadres," he wrote in his weekly letter. We need to ask ourselves whether the seeds of self-sacrifice they planted into our organization have not begun to fall on thorny, barren soil of self-interest!"

 

Which of course in the lingua franca of Delmas can be roughly translated into “Did you say the taxpayer will pay – in that case Pimp my ride!” or if you have the more refined Pretorian way of speaking “Hell yeah! Send that Beemer over thissaway!”.

 

Public Service. It’s tough but someone’s gotta do it.