PROVINCIAL PREMIERSHIP
SIMON LINCOLN READER: You brought it on yourself, North West
With your nomination of the rascal Brian Molefe to Parliament, your mischief trifecta is now complete, writes Simon Lincoln Reader
Dear North West Province, I hereby inform you that rods of red mercury and other explosive devices have been positioned strategically along the course of your border to other South African provinces. Upon the imminent appointment of Brian Molefe as either minister or deputy minister of finance, these explosives will be detonated and you will be severed from SA, leaving you isolated, little more than a southern suburb of Botswana. Unfortunately, the ANC in your province has behaved very, very badly. Because of the medieval conditions imposed upon you by your superstitious warlord, ahem, "premier", you may not have had access to newspapers or the internet, and subsequently you will not be aware of the trouble your province has caused. Once, when the economy was throwing up money, we entertained you as a sort of dreadlocked, spotty, intemperate stepson, fond of sulking and playing the didgeridoo. Now you’ve graduated into blowing up abattoirs and we are faced with no choice but to ampu...
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