CopeYL vs Ancyl: What makes Mda different

All together now, sing “Girls in white dresses and blue satin sashes/ security guards bold and poisoned snakes’ ashes/ SA’s Stalin our president in spring/ these are a few of my favourite things.

The kids of today huh?

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t the whole thrust of the Cope argument that there would be a party which would be divorced from ugly politics and name-calling, a protector of our democracy and quite frankly, the intelligent person’s alternative to the ANC?

Not for them all the ridiculous antics for which Julius Malema has been slaughtered in the media, they would be breathing new life into the concepts of decency, integrity and even the return of respect for our elders.

Perhaps not a return of the “arms deal” money but I digress …

“Cope youth leader Anele Mda at a Mthatha meeting on Friday called African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma “a rapist” and said that if the ANC was re-elected into government under “President Zuma”, “rape would no longer be a criminal offence”.
In the same meeting, another Cope leader, Willie Madisha, reportedly called Zuma “SA’s Stalin”. He said when “President Zuma” visited the United Nations, people would say: “here comes the rapist”.

“Mda da da I don’t love you you don’t love me
Mda da da I don’t love you you don’t love me
Mda da da I don’t love you you don’t love me
Mda da da I don’t love you you don’t love me

Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha (German but translates totally differently to Tawana’s unseemly outburst)
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht

I know why you ran away, aha
Understand you couldn’t stay, aha
Wonder where you are today, aha
After all was said and done

It was right for you to run!”

(Da Da Da Trio – not Tawana from Botswana who told the whole of Africa she “loves dick” upon her eviction from Big Brother Africa 3. How proud her folks must have been.)

Anyhow!

Seeing though we have pilloried Uncle Julius for his pearls of wisdom, I thought that we might as well do the same for Anele (pronounced “I nearly” or “I nearly the same as Malema”) but in the form of a Passover-4-questions-type exercise – sort of “why is this Anele different from every other youth league clown?”

Well, firstly, she appears to view the truth as some sort of foreign, ugly thing hardly worth bothering about. Jacob Zuma was acquitted of rape, which means he is not a rapist by anyone’s definition and unless I’m very much mistaken, there are no plans to legalise rape at this juncture.

Does Anele have Tourette’s or foot-and-mouth disease? If I was the local veterinary surgeon I wouldn’t be allowing her anywhere near our cattle anytime soon. The only time she seems to open her mouth is to change feet.

Does she enjoy support? Indeed if we have regard to that great thespian of our time, Willie Madisha, quoting from his Vavi (like quoting from Hamlet but without the vowels). When last did any of us hear our president mentioning HIV or Aids or Stalin at the UN singing ‘here comes the rapist and a partridge in a pear tree ( … or something like that)’? Taking politics where no person has dared to go before (or will again).

Is Anele potentially the future president of South Africa? No doubt that if this eventuality comes to pass, it would be the most moving event in South African history … on account of 80% of the population moving to Kenya.

Welcome to mainstream politics, CopeYL president.

Truly a breath of freshly recycled air.