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/ 22 February 2007
The manne were denouncing hypocrites left and right this week when they heard that plans are afoot to build a R90-million wall around the president’s Pretoria residence, but Lemmer supports Mr Mbeki entirely. After all, the man has refused to indulge in empty theaÂÂtrical gestures in the fight against crime, and a plain, utilitarian wall is as un-theatrical as it gets.
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/ 25 January 2007
An advertisement in the back pages of last week’s Mail & Guardian, placed by the government of the North West, announced a conference on ”stonewalling”. Turns out they were talking about building dry stone walls, and not about local government’s communÂÂications strategy. You live and learn.
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/ 14 December 2006
The manne had been impressed by Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, until her inevitable denial on Tuesday that she had ever actually specifically named the president when calling for our leaders to take public HIV tests. Ja nee, said Dok Rabie: it’s been a long time since a politician had a both-barrels approach to taboos and party secrecy.
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/ 7 December 2006
2010 World Cup generalissimos Danny Jordaan and Irvin Khoza have denied reports that they almost came to blows three weeks ago over a travel tender that wasn’t awarded to a company owned by a friend of Khoza. But Lemmer wishes they wouldn’t be so quick to bury the whole concept.
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/ 26 October 2006
This week News24.com reported on an SABC story gleaned from the BBC, in which Jacob Zuma promised that he would ”follow former president Nelson Mandela’s example” when it came to fighting corruption in government. And there the manne thought it was current President Thabo Mbeki who was the corruption-buster.
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/ 19 October 2006
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?)
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/ 13 October 2006
The chief whip of the ANC in parly is making the manne weep for the return of Tony ”Fabiani” Yengeni, now resident of Malmesbury. Mbulelo Goniwe (pictured above), not the brightest crayon in the box at the best of times, looks to the long-drop for political inspiration. To wit. When the Mail & Guardian revealed in 2004 that he had not declared his business interests, he told us: ”So what? I am not going to take this shit of yours any more.”
Lemmer never gets The Star here in the Dorsbult. So the manne were amazed at how lekker it’s become. On the pulse and all that. This week they revealed that Mandoza’s up for the Presidency. Now there’s a plan. A boer couldn’t make a better one. And for deputy president? My vote goes to Mzekezeke instead of old shower-head.
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/ 7 September 2006
On a flyer from Virgin Active (or Virgym, as Oom Thys calls it) this week: ”Class Definition”. No, your local gym is not offering Marxist political education, it just needs to explain its exotic menu of physical jerks. Perhaps Richard Branson would like to re-educate the jerk responsible for this quality customer service e-mail to a client with one of those new Virgin Money cards.
At the launch of the new South African Airways (SAA) credit card, CEO Khaya Ngqula was heard to say that parents tend to neglect good children because the bad ones demand their attention. ”We are focusing very much on one of SAA’s good children,” said Ngqula. Ja, well, no fine. If anyone can figure out what Oom Khaya was on about please let Lemmer know.