There were many South Africans this week who might have been excused for poring over the ANC’s upcoming elections walkabout schedules and then emptying their fridges in preparation for a visit from secretary-general Ace Magashule. Last week in Cape Town, he managed to shift the needle on the narrative from “it’s our time to eat” to “there’s no food” before promptly dipping into his pocket to bring out R400 for the overjoyed granny in the house.
Magashule, still smarting from the revelations in PL Myburgh’s runaway bestseller, Gangster State, didn’t get it. He did nothing wrong, he said, before promptly taking one foot out of his mouth and replacing it with another to urge that people “don’t vote for whites” at another campaign stop.Then, in an act of similar hubris, he phoned a radio station to whine that he’d only messed up one line, only to put the phone down when Eusebius McKaiser tried to question him a bit further.
The problem with Darren’s flater was that he just doesn’t get it, unlike singer Ard Matthews eight years ago.
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