South Africa has become Comedy Central

Salamu

Sometimes you can’t blame people for watching news about South Africa and thinking that it is a script for a sitcom on Comedy Central. Some might even venture as far as Cartoon Network when they watch news about the ANC or South African trade unions.

Hi Im Sabina Essa. Nobody paid attention to me as a child
and although I have a smoking hot body
I get attention by tweeting about being a dumbass. 

The week started when a FHM model tweeted about bribing a metro cop and being proud of the fact that she got away with it.

Sabina Essa was pulled over by the Johannesburg Metro Police Department  for going 140 km/h in a 60 km/h zone. Normally this would warrant a R2 000 fine or a court appearance. But the cop asked her how much money she had on her and she got out of a R2 000 with get this...R30! She tweeted about it and caught the attention of some top brass people in the justice department who told her that her future career as a lawyer is in danger if she is caught for a criminal offence or soliciting a bribe.

I have so many problems with this story.

A) this girl, like Jessica Leandra Dos Santos and her other girlfriend Tshidi Thamana, are giving every model out there a bad name. Just because these girls have shit for brains does not the other girls do, but of course the world will think that.

B) she came out at the end and said she tweeted this to get the attention of her followers. Um...there are far better ways of doing this. Pose for a few racy pics and provide your fans with a link. Or go do some community service you dumb bitch!  

WARNING: Low Brain Content.
 Expletives on request.
 Damaging career...vital part of DNA

C) surely you should know that lawyers are supposed to UPHOLD THE LAW even those studying to be lawyers.

D) what’s drugs are the metro police on? Letting a girl get out of a R2 000 fine with R30? You could have at least got R500. She didn’t have that much money on her. Get the handcuffs out and you will see how quickly R500 will appear in her hand.

E) do the JMPD not know that she should have been ARRESTED ON THE SPOT! Corrupt bastards! Corrupt!

And then came the big story of the week. Scarcely a week after pointing out how rife racism still is in our country, Cape Town artist Brett Murray produces a painting of Jacob Zuma with his wang out.

Do you have such little respect for the president of the country that you do some shit like that? No man...NO MAN...deserves to have that happen to them.

Obviously this garnered alot of media attention with the ANC calling Murray a racist and taking the art gallery that was showing the painting (the Goodman Gallery) to court, where the ANC lawyer broke down in tears in the court room when the judge asked him a very valid question.

I have already pointed out one of my problems with this story. But I do have a few more.

A) Why has this garnered so much news space when there are people with no water, no homes, no food and no jobs and E TV have round the clock coverage of dancing ANC supporters and the court case.

Fact: since the ANC came into power in 1994 20% of South Africans don’t have houses to live in and don’t have running water and decent basic services.

Fact: Unemployment is currently 40%

These are two good reasons that media coverage should be given to other things.

B) the painting was destroyed when two people walked into the Goodman Gallery and threw paint on the painting. So if the painting is destroyed what is the point of the courtcase? All you are doing now is wasting taxpayers money.

C) the leader of the National Union of Mine Workers wants their male members to march naked to the Goodman Gallery. First of all did not not progress out of the nappy stage where you want to act like a child and Secondly you are 60 years old, nobody wants to see that shit.

Mei jua daima kuwa kabla yenu, na vivuli nyuma yako!

Is it art? Or is it perverse entertainment at someone's expense?