CHRIS ROPER: Let them eat sushi
Kenny Kunene has two wrists, so he needs two watches. By similar logic, Ramaphosa wants us to feel sorry for MPs with two homes who have to spend twice as much as ordinary mortals
10 June 2021 - 05:00
One of the essays in Bongani Madondo’s excellent collection, Sigh, the Beloved Country, is titled "Midnight Pasha! Kenny Kunene’s Vile Bodies". In it, Madondo recounts his visit to the "closing soirée" of ZAR in Sandton, Kunene’s "Zuma-age nightclub of choice for the young, the intemperate, and the outlandishly rich … where the new money Afristocracy and its attendant hangers-on can play wildest fantasies unmolested".
You may remember Kunene as "Mr Sushi", famous for holding parties at which guests ate sushi off the bodies of semi-naked women...
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