Tucked away at the end of City Press‘s Sunday scoop on Cyril Ramaphosa entering the succession race, the line ”Additional reporting by Wikipedia” tweaked the Oom’s interest. A visit to Cyril’s entry turned up a curious final paragraph: ”Many people in South Africa, both prominent voices and ordinary citizens, view Ramaphosa as the next president of the country. He is seen as an intelligent, well educated man with the skills necessary to lead the country into cementing its young vibrant democracy.” Intriguingly, this little flourish of objective biography was added a fortnight ago. Lemmer doesn’t need to remind readers that Wikipedia is compiled from readers’ submissions; and he can only assume that when ”prominent voices and ordinary citizens” aren’t daydreaming about Cyril, they’re online.
Whinge
This week the manne were impressed to learn that Oom Trevor is handing over R5-billion for World Cup stadiums, and another R8-billion for transport infrastructure.
Big numbers indeed, but something just doesn’t add up for Lemmer. If we’re expecting 350 000 foreign visitors in 2010, and 50 out of every 100 000 people in this country get murdered, where is the billion put aside to prevent the statistical likelihood of 175 of those visitors being blown away?
Bullyboys
Speaking of bloody murder, Lemmer hears that Bafana Bafana are to play a friendly international against Namibia in Windhoek on August 16, and implores Fifa to intercede. Surely, after the Zizou head-butt earlier this month, football cannot tolerate another one-sided mugging?
Why can’t Namibia pick on someone its own size?
You’ll never take me alive
When will Tony Blair’s rogue colonising island and his stooges in Washington learn not to mess with Zimbabwe? Outlining yet another decisive victory, Robert Mugabe this week explained that the ”illegal sanctions” imposed by the European Union, Britain and the United States had failed, and that Zimbabweans could take pride in having ”defeated that strategy that was aimed at the collapse of our economy”.
Genius! And there we thought he was just a bossies tyrant, while all along he was fighting colonialism with a pre-emptive defensive economic meltdown.