Joe Kitchen is a South African musician, singer, songwriter and writer who sometimes goes by the name of Koos Kombuis, André Letoit and/or André le Roux du Toit.
With Cyril Ramaphosa out of contention – and, for all practical purposes, he is already out of contention – who remains to lead? He was seen as the one good guy in charge of a crooked organisation of scoundrels, thieves and hooligans.
It stopped me dead in my tracks.
Just another sentence, uttered by just another Cabinet minister, reported in just another news outlet.
Yet, this one sentence is probably the most mind-boggling piece of gibberish I have ever read.
The statement? By Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe. The context? I have no idea. The publication? Well, I don’t remember, but just about all the news outlets ran a story with this quote, so let’s just say it was Daily Maverick.
In the first place, I’m not sure why Gwede Mantashe still has a job. Wasn’t he implicated by the Zondo Commission in corruption or something? Wasn’t that, what, a few moons ago? Was he not supposed to have stepped aside until the investigations into him have run their course?
Okay, here’s the…