JUSTICE MALALA: End of the ass creepers
The nightmare of the Zuma years is over, and Upington, with its donkey statue, was a good place to celebrate
The minute Jacob Zuma finished his rambling resignation speech last week I ululated, went home, had a nice reviving sleep and flew to Upington in the Northern Cape the next morning. What a lovely place. If the people of Nkandla don’t want him (they did vote for the IFP in the last municipal elections) then Zuma can move to Upington. Why? Because they have a statue there which, I think, could double as a monument to him. The Kalahari-Oranje Museum is home to a donkey statue. Yes, they built a statue to that simple beast of burden, the ass. The statue "recognises the enormous contribution that this animal made to the development of the region during the pioneering days of the 19th century". There have been many statues erected in honour of Zuma. Remember the one in Imo State, Nigeria, where a governor who can’t even pay his civil servants’ salaries splashed out millions to build a statue to Zuma? It was so ugly that people spat at it. They had to erect a barrier around it. Then there’...
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