Busi bling
The bomb
Busi was starting to miss the happy days of Fikile Mbalula’s Youth League when they partied for any excuse (like the league’s historic birthdays—62, 63, 64, etc). The fun never stopped until Julius Malema showed up.
The amadelakufa strutted round in their kicking boboza and tried not to trip up on the dance floor to the House sounds of DJ Pepsi. It was the bomb and everyone was there—Julius, Limpopo premier Cassel Mathale, Mbalula and Khanyi Mbau. Suprisingly, Julius was the life of the party, with several women throwing themselves at him. But my lips are sealed with Maybelline Superstay, comrade, and I will not mention names here. Now a week later, Cope’s youth thought they can do it better and organised a similar bash on Friday at the same venue. But the Cope misers are charging an R80 entrance fee. Which goes to prove an ANC adage that together we can do more parties for free.
Julius’s sleepless night
After a star turn on the Capitol dance floor, Busi went home to get her beauty sleep, but she heard others had partied till 4am. Julius arrived at a student meeting in Bloem the next day dressed in the same shirt he was wearing the night before—a black and white spotted one that made him look like one of those adorable puppies in 101 Dalmatians. You can’t accuse the com of not taking his duties seriously—he must have been dog tired.
Greek chorus
On Busi’s way to her favourite mall in Hyde Park to do some recession shopping, she was surprised to see an ANC election poster in Greek. Was this George Bizos’s idea? Translated to English it says “with cooperation we can achieve more”. The message took up the whole poster, so there was no room for a picture of JZ. Could Msholozi be preparing us for the possibility that his presidency could end in Greek tragedy?
Spinning class
The spin doctors for the ruling party and the wannabe ruling party last week failed the first lesson in how to win over the media: show up on time. At the Media24 Journalism Academy ANC spokesperson Jessie Duarte, her Cope counterpart JJ Tabane and the DA’s Ryan Coetzee, were invited to address trainee journalists as well as political writers from some of the country’s major media. Ryan C—a good rap name—arrived five minutes early, even though he’d had to fly in from Cape Town. Tabane pitched up an hour and a half later, followed by a puffing Duarte. Sista Jessie then complained about how hostile the media is towards the ANC.
Pat gets red light
Busi knows Patricia de Lille is a powerful person, but maybe the Christian Alliance Network is expecting too much of her. Busi got her manicured hands on a letter that the Christian Action Network sent to the Independent Democrats, tearing apart the “religious freedom” election promises of Patricia’s party.
One of its concerns was the commercialisation of Sundays, which it says has led to Christians losing their jobs rather than sacrifice Sunday worship. Its main complaint was that churches had to close down because of traffic congestion and a shortage of church parking—caused by all those rushing to get to their Sunday jobs. Poor Pat—she’s already fighting to stop more arms deals taking place; must she now stop traffic as well?
Greening—Zille style
Sporting a stylish pair of black Wellingtons, the DA’s head girl, Helen, spent her weekend doing the right thing again: celebrating an early arbour day she planted 39 trees in Bloemfontein’s Jerusalema Park to create awareness of climate change. Busi appreciates Helen’s attempt to lighten her carbon boot print, but sadly, flying all over to spread the Good DA News erases the good work 39 trees would have done.
