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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Where wonders never cease
Cabinet ministers, shaking as the Gupta-wielded axe hangs over them, would be well advised to try a new branch of an old Tshwane favourite
Don’t you just love a word like heebie-jeebie? Don’t you love the music in it, the images it evokes in the mind? I would kill to invent a word like that. Anyway, they have the heebie-jeebies in Pretoria. Man, do they have the heebie-jeebies! Comrades are not talking to each other. Ministers are not talking to each other. No-one looks President Jacob Zuma in the eye. Ministers jump up from a nice reverie in their endless meetings clutching at their backs, hoping there isn’t a dagger sunk deep into their shoulders. It’s all very Shakespearean. These are the same people who bayed for Thabo Mbeki’s blood in 2007. Zuma was their man, rape trial and corruption trial and all. Now the man has somersaulted. They don’t know who he is anymore. Only the Gupta family matters to him.The ministers are all waiting for the axe. And none of them knows who will get it. They know what we all know: the names will be announced on the Gupta television channel ANN7 first. Then the heebie-jeebies will reall...
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