How on earth is it possible that this grotesque spectacle never ends? Apart from blaming all the problems of the country on the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in 1652, at the ANC party in Cape Town last night, our master of incompetence and laughing stock of the world State President, Jacob Zuma, had a praise singer “exorcise” the spirit of Van Riebeeck.
What the hell? In front of 40 000 cheering spectators (probably hoping for a free KFC meal and a T-shirt) he told the congregation that Van Riebeeck’s spirit had to “voetsek”. And then carried on with some sort of tribal chant which only Zuma, a few dead ancestors and himself made head or tails of.
Why the spirit of Van Riebeeck would hover around the Greenpoint Soccer Stadium is something only Zuma would understand. Van Riebeeck was born in Culemborg and died in Batavia years after he left the Cape.
What the rest of us understand very well of what happened here is that Zuma and his witchdoctor called white, taxpaying South Africans : “colonists” and are now trying to call on the spirits to get rid of our presence in our own country. OUR country – can you read? You want to get us out of our own country with tribal witchcraft.
You must be nuts. The best we can hope for is that your praise singer has the same competence as the one you employed to translate into sign language at Mandela’s funeral. He might just succeed to call up the spirit of Genl de la Rey or Andries Pretorius…and then we’ll see how well you remember history!
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