I HAVE experience in uselessness. At school, where I was a useless scholar, I was acquainted with schoolmasters who, outside of drinking whiskey, caning and playing with themselves in pursuit of breaking world records, were utterly useless.Every day in summer in London I pass men who spit on pavements then text on their phones and accidentally walk into lampposts and scream.George Osborne, Remain voters, Belgians, Oscar Pistorius’ running spikes, Wayne Rooney’s hairplugs, Piers Morgan, the Cape Times — all glowing examples of extreme uselessness.But I have never seen anything more useless than the MPs the ANC assembled from its ranks to appoint Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s replacement. They were Makhosi Khoza, Tom Bongo, Amos Masondo, Nic Koornhof, Grace Tseke, Refiloe Mothapo and Patrick Maesela.It was clear from their questions that this Monty Python squad was mandated to appoint one of Ian Fleming’s villains to replace Madonsela — someone with a bullet lodged in their brain...
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