GUGU AND KGALEMA

Well, it could be that our deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe and his statuesque, attractive partner, the delightful Ms Gugu Mtshali, may not be so cool after all. Alleged failed attempts to raid a R104 million cookie jar won't, of course, free you of guilt. As the worms crawl out of the can our usually unflappable and phlegmatic DP has called in the redoubtable Thuli Madonsela to crush them with Doom or whatever else is near at hand. He has, after all, an image to uphold. Not that lampoonist par excellence, Zapiro, would agree. http://mg.co.za/zapiro/fullcartoon/3638/

MALEMA - TIP OF AN ENDEMICALLY CORRUPT ICEBERG

City Press journalists Adriaan Basson and Xolani Mbanjwa today revealed that expelled ANC Youth League President Julius Malema is a Gucci millionaire and not 'poor' as he claims. 

They stated that in 2010 alone, different donors deposited more than R3 million into Malema's Ratanang Family Trust, currently the subject of an investigation by crime unit, the Hawks. More than R2 million of the deposits were made in cash.

Basson and Mbanjwa added that two recipients of money from Malema's trust were Gucci clothing and the five-star Twelve Apostles hotel in Cape Town.

Not bad trappings for a man who claims he lives on handouts and champions the poor. But the disturbing aspect about this information is that it reveals only the tip of an endemically corrupt iceberg. 

South Africa's citizenry are victims of a self-enriching rogue government bent on stuffing their pockets with filthy lucre but pretending otherwise. They have become shamelessly two-faced in achieving their venal ends and anything they say is no longer credible.