JUDGE Mogoeng Mogoeng has always, since the day the Machine Gun Man nominated him for the then vacant chief justice's position, been at pains to prove that the president's move was not politically motivated but based on his (Mogoeng's) extraordinary jurisprudential acumen.

The 50-year-old from North West finally got the chance to put the matter to rest last Wednesday afternoon at Mahlamba-Ndlopfu presidential guesthouse, where the Machine Gun Man had called a gathering of media representatives to confirm the appointment of God's favourite child to the top job on the bench.

People gasped in utter disbelief when, in his acceptance speech, God's chosen one told Mzansi: "(I) have to hit the ground running in order to fulfil our collective; an injury by one is an injury by all."

Now, anyone who has ever been in the struggle trenches - from Peter Mokaba in the 1980s to even peacetime heroes such as the Woodwork Boy, aka Juju, in the early 2000s - will tell you that the correct political slogan is "an injury to one is an injury to all".

Now, if you ever thought that Mogoeng's controversial appointment was some sort of a political payback, worry no more.

Notwithstanding the new chief justice's political naivety, real or stage-managed, Guluva is still trying to figure out, six days after his appointment, what "an injury by one is an injury" by all" really means in political terms.

Horror of horrors

ACCENTURE has, for Guluva at least, been one of the most progressive and forward-looking global companies doing business in Mzansi.

It is an employer of choice, you would say, because, according to the CRF Institute, it is a "Top 2 employer" in South Africa. It is a company that, by its own admission, prides itself in investing in people.

Imagine Guluva's horror of horrors when he, while reading one of Mzansi's newspapers, came across a half-page advert showcasing "Accenture's high performers" - its senior executives and senior managers - in print.

The company says all 34 "high performers" who were paraded in this fashion before Mzansi people's very eyes "represent the next generation of [Accenture's] leaders".

But of the 34 "high performers" whose photographs were published in the newspaper advert only five were women.

The last time Guluva checked, women were people, too, making up more than half of Mzansi's population.

By excluding them in the "next generation", does Accenture perhaps know something the rest of us don't?

Welcome to Budsa

WHILE still recovering from the shock withdrawal of Jimmy Manyi's Black Management Forum a few months ago, Business Unity SA, Busa for short, was slapped with another setback this week when a black business summit resolved to suspend black business participation in Busa and explore the possibility of reviving the now defunct Black Business Council.

In the light of these developments, even Busa leaders knows that it would be disingenuous of them to continue to expect people to call their organisation Business Unity SA when the body is disintegrating at this speed.

Budsa, or Business Disunity South Africa, would be more like it.

E-mail Guluva on thatha.guluva@gmail.com.