OOM Gwede correctly states that Ain't Seen Nothing Yet is like an elephant - it takes time to react, but when it does take action, it does so decisively.
The Woodwork Boy, aka Juju, and his kindergarten crowd also agree that the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet is indeed like an elephant, but their idea of an elephant is totally different from the one Oom Gwede has in mind.
They say the elephant they know is non-violent and has an incredible memory.
That perhaps explains why, when Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba criticised the kindergarten for damaging the country's image and scaring off investors with its nationalisation talk, he was swiftly reminded of an incident that happened four years ago.
"The only thing known about some people is government flowers, which have nothing to do with the national democratic revolution and the Freedom Charter," the kindergarten's newly elected general secretary, Sindiso Magaqa, said.
If memory serves Guluva well, this relates to the minister's unauthorised use of taxpayers' money to buy his wife flowers on Valentine's Day in February 2007.
Now, in the wake of Ain't Nothing Yet's move to charge the Woodwork Boy with bringing the organisation into disrepute, the kindergarten wants to slap the Machine Gun Man with a counter-charge - of bringing the party into disrepute.
The kindergarten has just remembered, like a good elephant would, that a few years ago Mshower-lozi embarrassed the party when he engaged in a sexual act without using a condom, resulting in his fathering a child out of wedlock.
Now, which of the two elephants is going to prevail in this battle for the soul of the party: the one with extremely violent tendencies or the vindictive one with impeccable memory?
The next few days will tell.
MK's new frontiers
STILL on the fight between the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet and its kindergarten, Guluva had to sit up and listen when Kebby Maphatsoe, chairperson of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association, entered the fray and warned the little ones not to go ahead with their march to the revolutionary house in Jozi when their prefect appears before the party's disciplinary committee tomorrow.
"We will not allow anybody to threaten the ANC. If need be we will defend the ANC with our lives," the chairperson of the rapidly disappearing, some will say dying, breed said.
It is interesting that Maphatsoe should say that. The last time Guluva saw his soldiers in "action" - the inverted commas have been deliberately inserted - was in 2005 or thereabouts, outside a court building somewhere in KwaZulu-Natal, where the Machine Gun Man was making yet another court appearance to fob off corruption charges against him.
Guluva genuinely felt sorry for the former guerrillas as they attempted to perform an underground army drill in front of TV cameras. Sweating heavily, the poor guys literally huffed and puffed under the weight of paper replicas of AK-47 rifles.
Maphatsoe should have realised at that time that his battle-scarred but ageing troops had completely new wars to fight now - debilitating chronic conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
They can hardly handle a toy gun, let alone pick up an AK-47 rifle.
E-mail Guluva on: thatha.guluva@gmail.com
Intriguing tale of two elephants
OOM Gwede correctly states that Ain't Seen Nothing Yet is like an elephant - it takes time to react, but when it does take action, it does so decisively.
The Woodwork Boy, aka Juju, and his kindergarten crowd also agree that the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet is indeed like an elephant, but their idea of an elephant is totally different from the one Oom Gwede has in mind.
They say the elephant they know is non-violent and has an incredible memory.
That perhaps explains why, when Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba criticised the kindergarten for damaging the country's image and scaring off investors with its nationalisation talk, he was swiftly reminded of an incident that happened four years ago.
"The only thing known about some people is government flowers, which have nothing to do with the national democratic revolution and the Freedom Charter," the kindergarten's newly elected general secretary, Sindiso Magaqa, said.
If memory serves Guluva well, this relates to the minister's unauthorised use of taxpayers' money to buy his wife flowers on Valentine's Day in February 2007.
Now, in the wake of Ain't Nothing Yet's move to charge the Woodwork Boy with bringing the organisation into disrepute, the kindergarten wants to slap the Machine Gun Man with a counter-charge - of bringing the party into disrepute.
The kindergarten has just remembered, like a good elephant would, that a few years ago Mshower-lozi embarrassed the party when he engaged in a sexual act without using a condom, resulting in his fathering a child out of wedlock.
Now, which of the two elephants is going to prevail in this battle for the soul of the party: the one with extremely violent tendencies or the vindictive one with impeccable memory?
The next few days will tell.
MK's new frontiers
STILL on the fight between the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet and its kindergarten, Guluva had to sit up and listen when Kebby Maphatsoe, chairperson of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association, entered the fray and warned the little ones not to go ahead with their march to the revolutionary house in Jozi when their prefect appears before the party's disciplinary committee tomorrow.
"We will not allow anybody to threaten the ANC. If need be we will defend the ANC with our lives," the chairperson of the rapidly disappearing, some will say dying, breed said.
It is interesting that Maphatsoe should say that. The last time Guluva saw his soldiers in "action" - the inverted commas have been deliberately inserted - was in 2005 or thereabouts, outside a court building somewhere in KwaZulu-Natal, where the Machine Gun Man was making yet another court appearance to fob off corruption charges against him.
Guluva genuinely felt sorry for the former guerrillas as they attempted to perform an underground army drill in front of TV cameras. Sweating heavily, the poor guys literally huffed and puffed under the weight of paper replicas of AK-47 rifles.
Maphatsoe should have realised at that time that his battle-scarred but ageing troops had completely new wars to fight now - debilitating chronic conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
They can hardly handle a toy gun, let alone pick up an AK-47 rifle.
E-mail Guluva on: thatha.guluva@gmail.com
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