Comrades’ chit-chat
The Oom brings you this exclusive conversation at last week’s SACP dinner in Gauteng: Now comrades, let’s just keep smiling …
Tell him to keep the blade where I can see it.
Lost
How the clot-plot clots. City Press reported that Eskom had suffered a R129-million loss in ”questionable circumstances”. On Tuesday the utility company called the report an ”unwarranted attack”, but admitted in the same breath that criminal investigations were imminent. And there was Lemmer thinking there weren’t any more loose nuts rattling around in Eskom. (Did someone say sabotage?)
Mine! Mine! Mine!
Last week this newspaper quoted SABC Head of Gnus, Snuki Zikalala, explaining the logic behind his decision to blacklist M&G owner Trevor Ncube. Ncube had his own newsÂÂpaper, said the Voltaire of the airwaves. ”So why should I give him a platform on my broadcaster?” Your broadcaster, Snuki?
And here we thought it was ours.
J-Who?
While Jacob Zuma raised half-a-million bokke at a gala dinner event this week, Jay-Z raised the roof at the Coca-Cola Dome in Randburg. But the parallel revels left some of the less hip manne down at the Dorsbult Bar scratching their heads as they muddled their JZs and Jay-Zs. Simple, explained Dok Rabie. The one is a massively popular performer who sells out venues wherever he appears and who has a funky mic technique on his trademark song. And the other is an American hip-hop megastar.