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08 March 2010 09:04

Criticise Zuma, but not for this

Jeremy Gordin says the Daily Mail dangerously misses the point.

If you do not know about the brouhaha surrounding President Jacob G Zuma and the English newspapers - mainly of the tabloid shape and mindset (for want of a better word) - you must either be poor (for which I'm sorry) or perhaps living in some bizarre, cut-off place such as Hogsback or Cape Town. Yet even in those outlandish places, I understand, the Internet exists.

It's been great fun, hasn't it, watching the souties (or rooinekke, if you prefer) having a go at the President. The President has, by the way (this info is for those residing in Hogsback) gone to London, with one of his three wives, Thobeka Madiba-Zuma, to see Queen Elizabeth II and a few other handlangers, such as Prince Phillip and Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

There is, after all, something deep...

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26 February 2010 08:58

To My Lord and Master Julius Malema

A loyal servant writes a letter of warning to the King of the Youth League.

My Lord

It's me, your loyal servant. I wish to sincerely apologize for burdening you by writing this letter and adding to your busy schedule. My King, I understand that your schedule, as President of the ANCYL, consists of such important work as busying yourself with sniffing out for those forces of darkness who are baying for your blood; spying on journalists who sleep around with politicians in exchange for information, and ending your week with a huge party where you go down in a circle of women.

Remember, those women you always tease me about, that I must not even look at them because they want someone who can buy them nice things. I know and respect all this, my Lord, and I beg for your indulgence to convey the urgent message from your people, the general membership...

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24 February 2010 01:39

Why Malema is a problem for Zuma

James Myburgh says the Youth League leader is undermining the new ANC govt.

JOHANNESBURG - In his recent reply to the debate on his state of the nation address President Jacob Zuma defended the right of Julius Malema to raise the issue of nationalisation. While making clear that this was not a policy of his government, he said he was not going to haul the ANCYL president into line.

He told the national assembly: "What members should do in an open democratic society is that if the president of the youth league, Julius Malema, raises an issue of nationalisation, they must raise their counterargument to him if they want to a debate on this. This must be done instead of saying to the government that they must stop him and make him keep quiet."

It is not difficult to re...

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