It was a spectacle, alright. Nothing less would have been expected with the stage set perfectly as President Cyril Ramaphosa came knocking on the door of the White House this past week.
It was a perfect setting for the former reality TV star and narcissist-in-chief now firmly in the saddle at the seat of absolute white power, all set to bully a president of an “insignificant” African country.
Bozo came armed to the teeth to bolster his fake argument of ethnic cleansing and persecution of a section of the white minority who remain in absolute control of an economy that virtually keeps the vast majority Africans in the periphery.
Donald Trump had a stack of printouts of what in his warped mind are indisputable proof of a genocide perpetuated against white Afrikaner farmers who in his glorious folly are slaughtered and their farms confiscated by the savages his mind perceives Africans to be.
The president of the United States was in no mood to listen to reason and pay attention to real news as he set out in typical fashion to label alternative views and reality “fake news”.
Yet in his ream of “proof” were pictures that had nothing to do with SA peddled as evidence of ludicrous claims. Held up atop the stack of papers was a photograph of health workers on the war front of the battle to defeat Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo almost a decade and a half ago.
Nothing was going to stop the circus. To Bozo this was all he needed to prove that there were atrocities on a grander scale than apartheid, bordering on the Holocaust in South Africa. To hell with Gaza.
It was clear that Ramaphosa had his work cut out in convincing the self-important clown that nothing could be further from the truth. The SA president had come prepared and appeared to have done reconnaissance of the terrain ahead, judging by the people he packed into his entourage.
To satisfy one of Bozo’s great loves, two SA golfing greats Ernie Else and Retief Goosen made the team. It’s a pity they didn’t seem to fully grasp the assignment as they wittingly or otherwise fed the lie that elevates farm attacks as a very special category of crime.
Lest we forget, SA is a violent country where crime is a colour-blind equal opportunity offender.
Ramaphosa’s agriculture minister John Steenhuizen did not do too badly but couldn’t resist the temptation to push his DA party line, likening its participation in the government of national unity as a great rescue act that kept the wolves (read EFF and MKP) outside looking into the Union Buildings, SA’s seat of power.
Bozo had earlier played a cringe-worthy video of Julius Malema chanting outdated struggle slogans.
The unexpected voice of reason came from Malema’s nemesis in the SA delegation; SA’s richest man Johann Rupert, an Afrikaner like all the white people on Ramaphosa’s team played his part to perfection, also reminding Steenhuizen what he had chosen to ignore in the DA’s stomping ground of the Western Cape, the ongoing slaughter of young men and women in gang wars on the Cape Flats.
It gave us hope as the officials herded the media out as the two sides set off for real discussions behind closed doors.
We can only hope that the interests of the African were not traded for less in the name of expediency and bowing at the feet of Bozo, the clown. Mayibuye!
