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What not to wear
Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu was at Grand Central Airport recently on a fly-by tour to show Angolan officials how housing projects have taken off under her wing. Sisulu was in girly high heels with purple bows, a custard pleated skirt and a purple satin top.
Enlisting for duty
After making small talk with her guests from Angola, officer Lindi excused herself to attend the national working committee meeting of the ANC. “The party I represent have their important meeting on a Monday and the punishment for not attending the meeting is being taken off the list.” At a safe number eight on the national list, fashion’s first foot soldier can afford to make jokes. There are other less popular comrades who might not find it so funny.
Church’s ballot box
When JZ addressed a captive audience of 7 000 people in the Rhema Church last Sunday, he was the latest political indignitary to preach at pastor Ray McCauley’s invitation, if not the good Lord’s. Others who’ve delivered sermons to the Rhema congregation in response to the call of the ballot box include FW de Klerk, Pik Botha and Adriaan Vlok. And surely Zuma knows they did not rule until Jesus comes.
Drama queens
At a Jozi performance of Pieter-Dirk Uys’s new satire, Elections and Erections, Julius Malema made another informed no-show. Just before he was due to appear on stage as a guest of Uys’s alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, Malema, always the gentleman, sent an SMS. The First Tannie of skinner couldn’t resist sharing it with the audience. It said: “I will not be made fun of by an old white woman.” Busi doesn’t know who’s the bigger queen.
Mirror, mirror
You must know the election race is getting tougher when the president of the top political party speaks about himself in the third person and extols the virtues of the person referred to.
How about this from Msholozi in a weekend interview: “If I was a person talking about Zuma, I would say this is the man I believe in who would go through everything. You would be confident that, because this man has gone through so much, there is nothing he cannot go through,” he protested modestly. Busi wonders if he gives himself a pep talk in the mirror every morning.
Let them eat meat
The ANC can’t altogether claim people attend their campaign rallies out of loyalty to the green, gold and black. At a recent rally in the North West it could have been the waft of braaiing meat that attracted supporters. Organisers say the livestock was donated and had nothing to do with luring the faithful to leave their Saturday afternoon football match to come hear Jacob Zuma speak in broiling heat. But Busi knows the road to a voter’s heart runs through his stomach.
