It’s not often I find anything about South Africa’s current president funny. Between corruption charges, the heavy handedness of his security outfit, his 20 children from seven different women, his five marriages, three women of which he is currently married to, his lack of leadership with regard to sexual restrain as leader of a country with one of the highest AIDS rates in the world, that he took a shower to prevent catching HIV from an infected woman, his plain old simplicity and lack of stature or integrity… the list goes on.
Most recently the local press had a field day over his fathering of a child with a woman young enough to be his daughter, and in fact is the daughter of one his close struggle comrades.
So the independent.co.uk’s report on his visit to London this week really did have me laughing out loud. For anyone not South African, some explanation is probably necessary. In Afrikaans, the word ‘pomp’ means pump, and also is a moderately rude word to explain the sexual act.
The report said that South Africa’s “first openly-polygamous President, Mr Zuma will be received with the usual pomp by the Queen and Prime Minister Gordon Brown“.
Oh dear. South Africans seem to be all over the UK, but clearly none were working as sub-editors on that particular edition of the newspaper.
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