And where is the wit and the humour?

It is hard not to remember the late Paul Rantao, maybe out of my bias towards his charade, and his mouthful-not without reason, he made me read the biblical book of Lamentations, Chapter 5 when he likened the masses in this country to the children of Zion.

"Remember, Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest". The same words were uttered by South African theatre legend John Kani in the film The Native and it is possible Rantao was simply echoing him, it is possible still that it was his own mind at work.