PERSONAL INTEREST
Castro’s main export was victim fertiliser
Castro was a generous contributor to the profile of the contemporary professional victim, writes Simon Lincoln Reader
In addition to hosting colourful doctors who thought tablets were small tables and that a Cesarean section was a suburb for refugees in Rome, another example of SA’s splendid relationship with Cuba was exposed in June when some of the 3,000 South African students studying there decided to use their beer money to fly a druid over from Pietermaritzburg. According to reports the students then spent a lot of time in a church, drinking Fanta and talking about river serpents, so they failed their exams. This made Small Business Minister Lindiwe Zulu extremely cross. I thought about Fidel Castro the day Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba rose to defend President Jacob Zuma in Parliament against the DA’s motion of no confidence, prompted by the State of Capture report compiled by the former public protector. Gigaba, sporting a Windsor knot, employed a strategy of subliminal nonsense that would have delighted the old bastard, as most of Gigaba’s speech portrayed black people as helpless idi...
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