Comics outshine clowns

09 May 2016 - 08:53 By LEONIE WAGNER

South Africans heading to the ballot box later this year can rest assured that there is a political party with a guaranteed solution to racism, and a rare handle on the truth.At the weekend four comedians launched the National Comics Party, at Gold Reef City's Lyric Theatre, in Johannesburg.At a press conference before the show, comedians Jason Goliath, Conrad Koch and his puppet Chester Missing, Schalk Bezuidenhout and Skhumba Hlophe presented the party's policies in their roles as ministers of live performance, apologies, minorities, and tax and corruption.The "ministers" were uncompromising about what this country needed but found humour in its politics. Minister of minorities Bezuidenhout said his solution to racism, the Tolerance Tan, would eradicate social media racist rants."We are going to spray-tan racism out of you. We have different shades: Bygone Brown, Soweto Swart . all the way to Prejudice Pink. It works! [DA leader] Mmusi Maimane was our first experiment - he used to be Derek van der Merwe."The point of the Tolerance Tan is that we can't be racist if we are all the same colour. But just don't be racist anyway, it doesn't help anyone and it makes my job difficult."The party also promised to deal with corruption and crime.Hlophe said the party would set up a tax and corruption team that would be headed by President Jacob Zuma - "he has experience in that department" - to investigate corruption in the entertainment industry."We will investigate why Danny K is still singing with black people . He's had this tender too along. There must be corruption somewhere."Taking a leaf out of EFF leader Julius Malema's book, Hlophe kicked a "reporter" out of the briefing for being an "agent".The reporter had asked if the proposed investigations would be legal.Another person at the briefing was expelled for having a big nose...

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