P: Koos Kombuis For President – Tongue-In-Cheek Poem by Margaret Alice

Koos Tshabalala-Kombuis creating a
one-party state as in the rest of Africa,
fighting against the DA even if he has
to include Zimbabwe in the Western
Cape; creating his very own race
classification system, only Koos deciding
who are ‘Africans’ and who ‘settlers’,
creating a true African state with Cuban
doctors, Haiti dictators, Russian advisors
and Chinese technicians; building dams
where none is needed, constructing railway
tracks underneath the Karoo, decorating
the land with expensive monuments
of himself; banning all Western hospitals
and pharmaceuticals – only traditional
healers and sangomas would be allowed,
because the President flies overseas
for medical care – besides he’ll mostly
be there, not here where criminals reign
supreme; and Koos has the right
credentials: living in England and
mastering the art of drinking tea…

Article by Koos Kombuis published in Rapport 15 July 2007