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Otherwise words from the great, good

Jacob Zuma
Jacob Zuma

WHILE floating about Vera overheard the nation's most powerful Spearman protesting that he is not overly fond of the fairer sex.

Man of flexible morals

WHILE floating about Vera overheard the nation's most powerful Spearman protesting that he is not overly fond of the fairer sex.

"The portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests I am a philanderer, a womaniser," he said of the country's most famous artwork.

Vera wondered. This surely could not be the same man who a few years ago boasted that "angisona isishimane mina" (I never struggle to get women to say yes).

Vera also wondered if this was the same person who famously said: "In the Zulu culture, you cannot just leave a woman if she is ready. To deny her sex, that would have been tantamount to rape."

Surely it cannot be the same person.

Pro-prostitution

Still on matters of the flesh, Vera was fascinated to hear the National Union of Mineworkers calling for the legalisation of prostitution.

According to the NUM, the principle that "the people shall share in the flesh of the ladies of the night" is enshrined in the Freedom Charter.

"The charter says everybody shall have the right to trade in any profession," NUM secretary general Frans Baleni told his followers.

Could it be that the union's planned naked march against The Spear artwork is just a cover for the unionists to advertise their services?

Adultery is cool

The man who called for the naked march was NUM president Senzeni Zokwana who, in defending the Spearman's 2006 sexual shenanigans, said: "We are not Christians... We don't listen to the Ten Commandments and we don't have to listen when Christians tell us adultery is wrong."

PAC's fall and rise

If you don't believe in ghosts you have never heard of something called the Pan Africanist Congress. What is that? It is a political party that existed a long time ago.

This week it came back to life for a few minutes to demand its president Letlapa Mphahlele call a national congress to elect a new leadership. Then it died again.

Waiting to be free

Vera is confused. Having believed that South Africa was free and democratic, this week she overheard Numsa say: "Only by placing the commanding heights of the economy in the hands of all the people of South Africa through nationalisation of the mines, banks, telecommunications, petrochemicals, water, food ... can a truly democratic and free South Africa come into life."

That means South Africa will never be free.

  • Vera's Weekly Question for the Nation: Who is the baby-daddy of the soon- to-be born second child of the daughter of the land's most powerful soccer boss? Could it be...?

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