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Zuptas must fall and other rants / Fred Khumalo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khumalo, Fred.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Africa--Politics and government.
- South Africa.
- Politics and government.
- South Africa--History.
- History.
- South Africa--Humor.
- Genre:
- History.
- Humor.
- Physical Description:
- 210 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Zupta must fall and other rants.
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town : Penguin Books, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Covers a wide range of topics, including politics, history, current events and celebrity gossip, this compilation of recent and new writings contains Khumalo's trademark blend of humor and shrewd analysis, as well as his treatment of everyday issues from a uniquely South African perspective. This is an entertaining collection of thoughts from one of the country's most seasoned journalists, offering many questions, and tongue-in-cheek answers, on who we are as a nation, where we are going, and how we compare to the rest of the world.
- Contents:
- #TrevorNoahAllTheWay 1
- We've been having it! 9
- On a bus in America 13
- Zulu psyche; an idiot's guide 17
- Alone among the Zulus: an Englishwoman's experience 22
- An open letter from a goat 24
- No Violet Bulawayo is wrong! We don't need new names! 27
- Ethnic cleansing will follow unchecked xenophobia 31
- A Shangaan walks into a bar 35
- #ZuptasMustFail 39
- My king, oh my king 51
- Walk tall, with Town Talk 55
- Girl, you make that dress look good 59
- Beyoncé: bringing cool to black pride 62
- Ingenuity, Nigerian style 65
- Virgin brains 69
- What I meant was 73
- I Facebook, therefore I am 77
- How Google made me an intellectual eunuch 82
- Some gripes about technology 88
- Another dinosaur 91
- Me, me, me! 93
- Speaking in tongues 98
- Fan these fragrant winds of change 100
- Conducting research at the gym, Somizi Mhlongo style 105
- No 'darkie' sarcasm in the class struggle 113
- Bantu Education, I love you! 121
- Coping with the black-tax albatross 126
- The rotund fence-jumper 129
- Amazing; Grace! 133
- Musical reflections 136
- The fine and terrible line that apartheid collaborators walked 150
- The Trump factor 160
- Boom boom boom! Malema bites the dust! 164
- More Jujus, tea girls and cowboys needed 166
- Speaker? Parliament needs a security guard 169
- What is a national key point? 172
- Zuma: I want my day in court... Not 175
- Khulubuse: grow up so you can reign 179
- Pirates need some potent korobela! 183
- The day Brilliant went missing 186
- Cure this man of his gout, or else 189
- For the meek shall inherit the earth, amen 192
- Walk the talk 195
- Christmas with the Khumalos 199.
- ISBN:
- 9781776091072
- 9781776091089
- 1776091078
- 1776091086
- OCLC:
- 960905009
- Publisher Number:
- 99969969860
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