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It may not be the last of Juju

PLUS Moody about the budget AND Lessons from the Past

QUESTIONS have been asked about why the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's national disciplinary committee waited until the last day of February 2012, a leap year, to announce the Inconvenient Youth's expulsion from the revolutionary party.

The committee's choice of the intercalary day seemed to have been cast in stone right from the moment its members started hearing arguments in mitigation of sentence by the Inconvenient Youth and his sidekicks a few weeks ago.

Even the protestations of the Inconvenient Youth and his lawyers - that they had not been given sufficient notice to be present at the revolutionary house to be formally informed of the verdict before it was communicated to the rest of the world - failed to convince Derek Hanekom and the other members of the committee to postpone the announcement.

From the look of things, the committee thought the last day of February of a leap year would be an appropriate one to tell the Inconvenient Youth aka Juju to jump or take a hike, by misquoting him thus: "In the revolutionary house, you behave, or else you leap."

But if the party's national disciplinary committee thinks Juju will simply leapfrog into the sunset and disappear into nothingness, they'd better think again. People close to him say this is when he is at his most dangerous.

That is why they say the announcement the committee made on the fateful last day of February of a leap year might come back to haunt it.

They see the move as a giant leap of fate.

Moody about the budget

MANY people, organisations and companies have welcomed Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's budget, saying it will begin to deal with the maze of challenges facing the country.

Although they admitted that Gordhan's announcement was not going to be a panacea for all our country's ills, they agreed it would go a long way towards fixing some of the wrongs that continued to dog Mzansi, such as grinding poverty, rampant unemployment and a faulty education system.

In short, they said it was a fair, realistic and balanced budget.

But international ratings agency Moody's was probably the only one that did not find any joy in the budget, to the extent that it is now even thinking of downgrading Mzansi's impressive credit rating.

Guluva believes Moody's is just being moody.

Lessons from the past

CITY of Joburg mayoral committee member Matshidiso Mfikoe has been accused by members of the Zille-De Lille Connection - who else? - of having had a personal make-over and buying Valentine's Day and birthday gifts at ratepayers' expense.

But Mfikoe, an Ain't Seen Nothing Yet councillor, is known to be a law-abiding citizen who uses her high-profile political position to uplift the poor and the downtrodden.

But if indeed she was involved in such indiscretions, it means she had been fast asleep over the past few years.

If she hadn't, she would have remembered that a colleague of hers in the revolutionary party, one Malusi Gigaba, once ended up in the dog box for buying his estranged wife a bunch of flowers at taxpayers' expense.

Email Guluva on: thatha.guluva@gmail.com.

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