Wot a shower

I thought of writing about the end of the never, never trial of Mr Jacob Zuma, President-in-waiting of South Africa but it was such an anti climax i was left thougthtless.

I wondered instead about the Brian Rix farce qualities of the entire affair, but a Rix farce always has a plausible resolution, which is known beforehand to the audience. Does Mo Shaik’s revelation to the nation at some place in Tschwane [sic] count as bringing the audience into the unravelling plot, or was that too close to the denouement to count as creating farce: hmm more commonly used with tragedy.

And then there is this anti-climatic discovery that the entire case was a fabrication conspired by our own Rosenkranz and Guildenstern [sic]. This strange conclusion, whereby about a hundred million rand [not really much money is it?] is spent to discover via a random mysterious audio tape delivered via unofficial/unorthodox means that the entire business was an NPA conspiracy, hatched by a couple of flunkeys in the system and not the Butler everyone has suspected all along. No wonder the man is now sitting in an aggrieved circumstance offstage albeit not yet in the Green Room. This ending was not at all farce like. It has a distinctly continental even French touch. It’s more like the kind of ending one should have in a pink panther movie, where credulity has already been so overstretched that R&G are simply the comic relief.

So: the unanswered questions. Why was there a rumour that the NPA was proposing to charge Mr Z with more than 700 counts of what should now, appropriately in our newly transformed society, be [so-called] Black-collar-crimes? Did those huge files we kept seeing in foto glimpses on Tee vee in the hands of the prosecution simply contain malicious gossip? Was telling the nation about it all over these years that we have been bored with this saga also malicious gossip and shouldn’t those who perpetrated and broadcast such gossip be hunted down and apprehended? Will Rosenkranz and Guildenstern be hunted down? Will they mysteriously become, as they were in Hamlet? Or will they simply have to lay low in exile for awhile until everyone has forgotten that there were ever unfavourable thoughts about the new beloved leader, say by later today?

When Mr Shaik was found guilty of supplying more than R2,000,000 bucks to Mr Z did this not imply that the money had been received by the latter, or is that, unproven and therefore, he is innocent of using the money to finance the school fees of his many children [which is of course as it should be shouldn’t it ] and maintaining a lifestyle, in conflict with his declared income… Ah that too is unproven and therefore like the personal affairs of all persons a private matter [again as it should be] is out of bounds for discussion.

The great thing about winning this marathon struggle is the ten-year After-party that is our forcoming attraction. Have a great life Msholozi [sic] with your wondrous Machini wami [sic] Those guys in the G20 are all lining up to have a foto-op with you at the next big summit. They would have all buckled under the strain, well maybe not Mr Putin or that tough little Frenchman, but you are undoubtedly "The man": chutzpah deluxe..

Better to be a man about whom questions are asked than one about whom the answers are known.
Final question. Could this oddball ending be improved with a close out shot of Mr Z taking a shower?

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