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Red Riding Hood is now also the Wolf!

To deflect attention from the rumours that Tannie Evita is responsible for spending R246m on curtains for MaKhumalo Zuma’s tuck shop, she has been redeployed to Parliament, along with the leader of the EFF, who has introduced his presence to the National Assembly like a crimson gash of lipstick on an old nun’s crumbling facade.

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The scandals around Nkandla will just not go away. ANC member Evita Bezuidenhout is also under suspicion. To deflect attention from the rumours swirling through the corridors of Luthuli House that Tannie Evita singlehandedly is responsible for spending R246m on curtains for MaKhumalo Zuma’s tuck shop, she has been redeployed to Cape Town’s Fifth Parliament to keep a motherly eye on the antics of the new kindergarten.

Parliament was once all white. Then it became an imbalance of white, black and brown. Now comes die rooi gevaar! The most famous white woman in South Africa and former Ambassador to the Homeland of Bapetikosweti is here seen stranded in a red sea of expectation with some of the members of the Economic Freedom Fighters.

On her lap sits their leader who six months ago couldn’t rub two cabbages together and yet now has introduced his red presence to the National Assembly like a crimson gash of lipstick on an old nun’s crumbling facade. Parliament will never be the same again. Stand-up comedy has arrived!

The picture proves that the EFF now also sports members who are not only white and mature, but bring with them political experience from former dangerous liaisons. On the left Dr Piet Promises who once knew how to confiscate land without compensation, sitting next to Comrade Botha who after many years in the NP ended up in a red beret via the ANC ‘because of foreign affairs that need investigating.’

To the right of Evita sits Muslim firebrand Fatima Petersen who will make sure that the handed-out sausage rolls are strictly halal with EFF tee-shirts not imported from China. Next to her is Oom PW, happily back in Parliament after a lifetime in the political wilderness. Behind them various other excited new MPs who cannot wait to give the ANC a two-thirds majority in exchange for the nationalisation of banks, mines and McDonalds, as well as regime-change in the Cape and Orania.

It is a year since Mrs Bezuidenhout joined the ANC. ‘Give cash and you’re in’, she recently admitted. People still find it hard to believe that the Gogo of the Nation is now a member of the ruling party.  ‘Yes,’ said a leading political pundit who wanted to remain nameless,‘It’s like seeing Chancellor Angela Merkel as a Greek bank manager!’

This ongoing saga will be part of EVITA’S NKANDLAKOSWETI set to open at the Market Theatre in October and move to Cape Town’s Baxter in November for those planning a holiday back home.

From 13 – 27 July Mrs Bezuidenhout will be joining a unique South African satirical cluster at the Soho Theatre for ‘An Audience with Pieter-Dirk Uys’.

Book on www.sohotheatre.com/whats-on/an-audience-with-pieter-dirk-uys/

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PHOTO BY STEFAN HURTER