Retraction

Jacob Zuma has apologized for his statements about ‘The Gays’. This comes after the ex-Deputy president blurted out some hate speech against homosexuals this past Heritage Day. Most South Africans merely slaughtered chickens to mark the day as ‘different’ but JZ had other intentions. Among the things not on JZ’s ‘Happy List’ were gay marriage and safe sex, both apparently useless in a society that bathes regularly. The former however was stated as being ‘intolerable in any normal society’ – a statement no doubt to have caused a Zulu blush or two. But why the stance? When your future is as flakey as your impala loin-cloth, why bash gays? Mugabeen there, done that. No thank-you. And then why retract it? Perhaps even by JZ’s calculations one in ten South Africans was a lot of ‘homos‘ and even homos can vote, can’t they?. Or perhaps JZ was considering the icy prospect of going to jail. After all, homophobia and prison cells don’t make good bedfellows.