The Big Read: Jacob Zuma is truly up the pole

12 July 2016 - 10:35
By Tom Eaton

High up in the sky, at the top of the tallest telephone pole in the street, Jacob Zuma is smiling like a dope.His expression is that of a Roman emperor being fellated on a tiger skin while listening to an ensemble of harpists and a briefing from a temple priestess who had a dream in which the emperor was riding a burning elephant through a barley field, sure proof that this year's barley crop will be the best ever.

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