TOM EATON: Cyril and the spirits in the room
Don’t show me the future, I can’t bear it, the president begs the assembled ghosts
12 December 2023 - 05:00
The guests were arriving for Christmas dinner in an hour, but the generators had been roaring all day, keeping the nightingale pâté at the required 17.2°C, and now Cyril Ramaphosa had an absolute banger of a headache.
He massaged his temples as he checked the presents one last time. Good. Yes. He’d chosen well, especially the Sherlock Holmes hat for Bheki Cele, embroidered with “Facts Don’t Matter: You ARE A Good Minister”, and the plastic crate for Fikile to sit in and go “Brrm brrm, look at me steering the ideological direction of the party!” ..
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