GULUVA's favourite politician in North West has to be the revered Reverend OJ Tselapedi, who served the province at various levels with great aplomb over many years.
Although you would argue that he was never in the same league as OJ Simpson, the American football legend who was widely celebrated in the sporting fraternity before he disgraced himself when he murdered his wife Nicole Brown-Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in the mid-1990s, our OJ had a special aura about him.
That is why he was very popular on the cocktail circuit in and around the province. If he was not gracing a community fundraising luncheon deep in rural and economically depressed Bojanala district, he was addressing a high-profile corporate function in the glamorous Sun City entertainment complex.
He always mixed with the right and highly-connected people, especially the BEE-type, to the extent that Guluva believed he was one of them.
Guluva would not have been surprised if our OJ had later moved on to serve on a number of company boards throughout Mzansi. Such is the influence the revered reverend used to have on both the business community and political arena.
But why is Guluva talking about the high-flying reverend in the past tense? Well, besides having been kicked out of government, our OJ has also gone completely off tangent as far as business opportunities are concerned.
Since he left his last political position as North West MEC for education following the triumphant return of the 2007 Polokwane crowd, Tselapedi has been quietly running his chicken farm far away from the limelight.
Which leads Guluva to wonder whether this is not a classic case of political chickens coming home to roost.
Jesus's return fast-tracked
CHRISTMAS, the day when the Son of Man Jesus Christ was born, is two days away and our Machine Gun Man had nothing complimentary to say about Him, His followers and their belief system earlier this week.
Deviating from his prepared speech and speaking in isiZulu, the Machine Gun Man mounted an unprecedented attack on Christianity, saying it was this religion that was responsible for most of the social ills afflicting Africans today.
The Machine Gun Man, who on more than one occasion said his party, the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, would rule Mzansi until Jesus came back, might live to regret his unwarranted and hurtful utterances.
Jesus might just grant the Machine Gun Man his wish and return to Earth much sooner than he had wished. And, at the rate the Machine Gun Man is going, that wish could be fulfilled even long before Mangaung 2012.
Forehead or Showerhead?
STILL on the Machine Gun Man, you have to give it to the guys at Deaf Federation of South Africa for their great sense of humour.
Of all the physical features the president is endowed with, sign language users under the auspices of DeafSA have curiously chosen the forehead to depict him. This they do by putting their palm open on the forehead and pressing it back.
They say they chose this part of the anatomy because "it is large".
But Guluva still believes the most distinguishing sign that would appropriately depict the Machine Gun Man would be a machine gun itself.
Fall of the mighty OJ Tselapedi
GULUVA's favourite politician in North West has to be the revered Reverend OJ Tselapedi, who served the province at various levels with great aplomb over many years.
Although you would argue that he was never in the same league as OJ Simpson, the American football legend who was widely celebrated in the sporting fraternity before he disgraced himself when he murdered his wife Nicole Brown-Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in the mid-1990s, our OJ had a special aura about him.
That is why he was very popular on the cocktail circuit in and around the province. If he was not gracing a community fundraising luncheon deep in rural and economically depressed Bojanala district, he was addressing a high-profile corporate function in the glamorous Sun City entertainment complex.
He always mixed with the right and highly-connected people, especially the BEE-type, to the extent that Guluva believed he was one of them.
Guluva would not have been surprised if our OJ had later moved on to serve on a number of company boards throughout Mzansi. Such is the influence the revered reverend used to have on both the business community and political arena.
But why is Guluva talking about the high-flying reverend in the past tense? Well, besides having been kicked out of government, our OJ has also gone completely off tangent as far as business opportunities are concerned.
Since he left his last political position as North West MEC for education following the triumphant return of the 2007 Polokwane crowd, Tselapedi has been quietly running his chicken farm far away from the limelight.
Which leads Guluva to wonder whether this is not a classic case of political chickens coming home to roost.
Jesus's return fast-tracked
CHRISTMAS, the day when the Son of Man Jesus Christ was born, is two days away and our Machine Gun Man had nothing complimentary to say about Him, His followers and their belief system earlier this week.
Deviating from his prepared speech and speaking in isiZulu, the Machine Gun Man mounted an unprecedented attack on Christianity, saying it was this religion that was responsible for most of the social ills afflicting Africans today.
The Machine Gun Man, who on more than one occasion said his party, the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, would rule Mzansi until Jesus came back, might live to regret his unwarranted and hurtful utterances.
Jesus might just grant the Machine Gun Man his wish and return to Earth much sooner than he had wished. And, at the rate the Machine Gun Man is going, that wish could be fulfilled even long before Mangaung 2012.
Forehead or Showerhead?
STILL on the Machine Gun Man, you have to give it to the guys at Deaf Federation of South Africa for their great sense of humour.
Of all the physical features the president is endowed with, sign language users under the auspices of DeafSA have curiously chosen the forehead to depict him. This they do by putting their palm open on the forehead and pressing it back.
They say they chose this part of the anatomy because "it is large".
But Guluva still believes the most distinguishing sign that would appropriately depict the Machine Gun Man would be a machine gun itself.
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