A good week for Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla
If there were any doubts that Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla is her daddy’s girl, recent political cunning debunked any suspicion. OK, it was only in the Pan-African Parliament (an organisation with an appropriate acronym, PAP), a political playground for
people pretending to be powerful. But it was an indication of her gift for political intrigue. The Sunday Times reported that she “quietly ignored” (a euphemism for cheated?) the ANC representative, who thought it was in the bag, outsmarting him and getting herself elected to chair the Southern African Development Community caucus.
If there were any doubts that Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla is her daddy’s girl, recent political cunning debunked any suspicion. OK, it was only in the Pan-African Parliament (an organisation with an appropriate acronym, PAP), a political playground for people pretending to be powerful. But it was an indication of her gift for political intrigue. The Sunday Times reported that she “quietly ignored” (a euphemism for cheated?) the ANC representative, who thought it was in the bag, outsmarting him and getting herself elected to chair the Southern African Development Community caucus.
A bad week for Julius Malema
It’s tempting to compare our latest political melodrama to one on the high seas more than 200 years ago. Today it’s HMS Red Sails facing a mutiny, with Julius Malema a remarkable reincarnation of the imperious martinet Captain William Bligh of HMS Bounty. There’s even a character resembling Fletcher Christian, the master’s mate turned mutineer, who was played by Marlon Brando in the movie depiction of the novel. Except that Floyd Shivambu today resembles a later Brando character, a corpulent Vito Corleone in The Godfather, with the girth and flatulence of speech to match.
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