A dammnable expense Mr Zuma

So this is the morning that tells all. The sideshow that has entertained us for months now since the news broke that our former deputy president had been accused of rape is about to be decided and then what.

In reviewing this case one has never been more forcibly reminded of one Lord Chesterfield's famous assertion about the sexual act: ' The position is ridiculous, the pleasure momentary, and the expense damnable.' Never was a man more dammed for a quick fuck than the generally indomitable Mr Zuma.


There is only the fact. He is either guilty or he is not guilty. For those of us who did not attend the trial and did not sniff the multiplicity of nuances prevalent in the courtrooms of our television Perry mason moulded consciousness there are only a clutter of disconnected lumps of information, of which these two stand out.

· The complainant is allegedly a practicing lesbian, which would indicate that men were not her thing. This has perhaps been overlooked in the general sidestepping angst surrounding her HIV status [and his].
· There is the countervailing power thing of the power relationship Zuma big [How dare you be a ] Lesbo protester weak, demonstrated so convincingly in Britain this past week where their deputy prime minister was stripped of all administrative responsibilities because of his sexual abuses. Does powa trump lesbo?

That the two engaged in a copulatory act is undeniable. What is at issue is the question of consent

Should Mr Zuma be found guilty then we move on. He is discredited and the country moves toward a new and perhaps more sober reality in which the gradual realisation that we are a country ruled by law prevails. We gradually become a more law-abiding nation and this is a large step towards that destiny.

On the other hand should he be found not guilty:- the generally unsupported allegations of serial rape [perhaps she was raped serially-the late Andrea Dworkin was wont to observe that all penetration is rape-and perhaps it is] and other contradictory evidence, this time on the part of the unknown complainant, conspire to convince the judge [and his pair of generally unidentified assessors] that a case for reasonable doubt exists then Mr Zuma is declared a free man and every woman in a short skirt is immediately fucked against their will.

This is a crucial turning point.

As some of you know I have previously made reference to a fictional work I have written that sets out the model for the society in which a new science fiction story that I am writing is set. The foundations for that world of mine [The Azanian Konfederacy] are laid during this decade and specifically concerns the period 2009-2019. They are presented in the form of a history of a region discovered by travellers at some distant time when our era is as remote as that of the early Roman Empire, with which it is often confused by young and old.

In my history of the 21st century presidency of Corinth Starr [the Elder] first woman president of Southern Azania [South Africa-SA] published some years ago on another website it is the issue of rape that proves a turning point in the fortunes of the ruling party. Criminality generally is a problem but for two groups of people rape is an especial problem. My history was vague on the actual incident that triggers the rise of the Gender Party -a mass rape and burning of a girls high school hostel-an incident which subsequently took place in Kenya was the given trigger.

In time a not guilty verdict could well become the genesis of that evolution.

In my history [I'm going back into my fiction now] Corinth Starr from Zone One [Gauteng] takes over the leadership of a little remembered party that has taken part in every election and gained so few votes it's not funny. That is a 'Women's party'.

Starr renames it 'The Gender Party' and builds it into an irrevocable force. Her pragmatism [she engineers the next great 'fanciful' project after the Gautrain- which is still at that time in a state of Be-coming-. This is the famous 'Towers' project in North West Zone One: five massive 1000 metre tall Towers constructed to collectively put many millions of hectares under thermally controlled cultivation and, as a by product, providing commercial water supplementation.] and power generation. [for the sceptics you'll find them in Google: a small one in Spain and a 1000 metre jobbie going up in Australia]

Her winning formula is forming an alliance with the equally unknown 'Basic Pay' party. This was not its name at that time. It was formerkly known as the 'Grouping for a basic income grant {BIG]'.

Starr argued brilliantly that the country was liberated from servitude in 1994 and that the word 'Grant' in the reference to basic income was humiliating and represented a return to feudal servitude. [as a cynical commentator in the press observed at the time 'they should be humiliated more politely'].

Starr proposed that the electronic wired nature of society allowed for every citizen to receive Basic Pay, which became a mantra at rallies across the country. She engineered a voter registration drive to get every poor person and woman in the country onto the voters roll and gained just sufficient votes to give her an upset victory in the 2009 elections.

Her first Act though is to declare rape to be a genocidal crime, subject to investigation under the provisions of the newly passed terrorism act [which had not been passed when I originally wrote this]

Because of the difficulties of proving rape the presumption of innocence provision in the law is changed [based on the precedent of the traffic fine which presumes guilt unless you choose to go to court and fight over your innocence]. So under Corinth Starr's presidency Mr Zuma would have had to prove his innocence and the string of witnesses from various assembled church groupings would testify that Mr Zuma was a serial rapist fathering children and crying off his responsibilities and it would be his task to show that he had been wrongfully accused.

This naturally gave rise to many structural difficulty and therefore it became de-rigeur that every act of copulation had to be preceded by a contractual agreement certifying that penetration had occurred voluntarily, with the option to cry duress on the part of the penetratee. [Yes the gender Party received strong support from that part of the male gender fraternity who are themselves the subject of unwanted anal attention-hence it is the very act of penetration without a contract signed and agreed not less than twenty four hours before the act takes place, with both parties freely able to move about and the contract digitally verified twice before the act.]

Failure to adhere to this rule meant that guilt was automatic.

Of course in my fictional world everything was a bit more complicated than this brief piece regarding the potential downside to a not guilty verdict. Nonetheless this case with Mr Zuma has revealed many things about whether the cheque woman are getting from the constitution needs to be returned address unknown or not, to paraphrase Martin Luther King.

If by expense Lord Chesterfield referred to the ever ballooning costs of Mr Zuma's fast fuck, then the cost to the party could be catastrophic, as Mr Phony Haire the Brit [Pomeranian] master of the glib riposte has this past few weeks discovered to his irrecoverable loss.

My character of Corinth Starr was modelled and built around three admirable women: Winnie Madikazela-Mandela, Patricia de Lille [in her PAC days], and Maggie Thatcher-her zeal that of the former two her economics that of the new emerging third way with the goal of the privatised market based welfare state.

I think it is pretty inevitable right now that a woman will be our country's [SA's] new President in 2009. The outcome of today's decision could raise the question: which party will she represent?

0905 8th april 2006