So there’s a new mayor and political team in charge of the visdorpie. But it is about three weeks later, so someone should tell the council’s IT department. Its official website still contains the ”The Executive Mayor” page featuring none other than a beaming Nomaindia Mfeketo! There’s a ”Diary of the Mayor” and ”The 10 Commitments of the Mayor”, even if Mfeketo is now a mere councillor.
All that jazz
There was much brown-nosing amid the blue notes at last week’s international jazz festival in the visdorpie. Somebody saved ringside seats for Deputy Prez Phumzile ”crane-spotter” Mlambo-Ngcuka and she arrived late and all of that, like VIPs and their flunkies always do. She pissed off the serious aficionados, but no more than the mampara MC did. Amid all the calls for an encore, he called for a round of applause for the deputy prez, who had already left.
Selfe a-fronting
So, it’s not only the mandarins of the black economic empowerment movement who front. The Deeyay last week issued a statement in the name of acting leader James Selfe. Okay, party leader Tony Leon was overseas, but what about his deputy Joe Seremane? We know he doesn’t get to say much with motor-mouth around, but last time we looked, he was still the last black man standing in the Deeyay. Or had he been redeployed to run Cape Town now that old Wallace-walla’s being put out to pasture? All’s okay, old Joe just took leave, letting James front.
The Virginia Monologues
Everyone knows about that greatly misunderstood performance The Vagina Monologues. It was everything to everyone. But the organisers of the revived play Nongogo saw fit not only to misspell (or is it rename?) the stage manager’s name, but also to rename the greatly misunderstood play. They opted to call the stage manager Dimakatsu Mateboge (surname also suspect), instead of Dimakatso, who once worked on The Virginia Monologues!