NEC MUST COME TO THE PARTY
How Zuma's disciples abandoned a wedding for the airport when Hanekom struck
War is about to break out between the tourism and liquor industries, and Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom is to blame for it. The captains of the liquor industry are miffed beyond anger because some members of the ANC national executive committee (NEC) almost choked on their Johnnie Walker Blue Label and other assortments of expensive medicine when unnamed sources told them that "lomLungu uHanekom unesibindi" – This white man Hanekom has a liver (guts). For those of us who, after 300 years since they became African still do not speak an African language, this simply means, according to the unnamed sources, Hanekom skrik vir niks and is blessed with oodles of chutzpah. These disciples of President Jacob Zuma were in Stellenbosch at the wedding of the mayor of Ekurhuleni. As they were getting down to the sounds of Zahara and Bollywood, the news broke over WhatsApp and SMS that, in the absence of their sycophancy, Hanekom stood up on Saturday humming a tune that sounded like "Vat jou goe...
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