Malema butters up Goodwill Zwelithini with four pregnant cows and a bull
With an annual budget of more than R50m, King Goodwill Zwelithini is not the easiest to buy a present for
What gifts do you buy for the Zulu monarch’s birthday? After all‚ King Goodwill Zwelithini is a man who — thanks to his more than R50m annual budget — has it all. Apparently‚ EFF commander-in-chief Julius Malema has the answer: you buy him four pregnant cows and a bull. And it was a gift a beaming Zwelithini could hardly conceal his delight at. Excitement was the word — and mood — of the day at Zwelithini’s Linduzulu Royal Palace in Nongoma‚ northern KwaZulu-Natal‚ on Thursday, when Malema and his EFF entourage paid homage to the Zulu monarch on his birthday. But it was two birthdays in one‚ really‚ as the EFF spends the week in the province ahead of its fourth birthday party on Saturday. Their pre-party meanderings in the province coincided with Zwelithini’s 69th birthday‚ and it was a scheduling coincidence Malema said he could not let go by.
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