At the ANC conference this week Zuma responded to media speculation about the potential break-up of the tripartite alliance, calling it "a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing".
Wow.
A tidal wave of dramatic irony has swept over me and I am overwhelmed. Zuma, quote-mining Shakespeare. Using the words of a treacherous tyrant who murdered his leader in his sleep to lend a veneer of education to his demagoguery. This must be savoured and turned over in the mind: it is not often a farce this rich appears on stage.
For the moment, I will content myself with wondering which of his wives is to play the role of Lady Macbeth...
