You just wouldn't think there was going to be an election here in a couple of months time. There's no mad electioneering going on. No mass panic. No-one stocking up on the spam and bottled water. Life trundles on. Funnily enough, I don't seem to be on the mailing list for the ANC and therefore miss out on all the Jacob Zuma V COPE excitement. Even the Daily Sun doesn't rate politics as a headline grabber. Last Friday's headline was "My Uncle Wants My Balls!". Muti hunters beware...
It was therefore in true liberal white minority fashion, that we spent Friday evening at the theatre watching Evita Bezuidenhuit's one woman show - Elections and Erections! Evita is a cross between a South African Dame Edna Everage and Rory Bremner but possibly funnier. I was a bit worried that I wouldn't get the jokes (there's a fair sprinkling of Afrikaans) but found that even I could relate to the sketch on queueing at Home Affairs. I particularly liked the ventriliquist dummies of Thabo Mbeki (puts tippex in his beard to look more distinguished) and Jacob Zuma (looks like ET). Zuma even had his own portable shower, so that he could end the first act in style.
To sum up South Africa's place in world politics:
Barack Obama tells his government - YES WE CAN!
Evita tells our government - NO YOU CAN'T!
www.epp.org.za
