Cape Town news welcomes Gerrie Hugo to our blog roll

Posted on November 3rd, 2007 by Richard Catto 1,550 views

Gerrie Hugo is a South African living in Sweden.

You may not like everything he writes because he is scathingly critical of South Africa, especially in regards the lack of personal safety due to crime, that weighs heavily on him.

However, he writes well. You will get a jaundiced view of South Africa, but also an intelligent and articulate one, like his recent article, Shooting the Bull, in which he satirises Mbeki’s authorised biography "Fit to Govern: The Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki" by Ronald Suresh Roberts.

Hugo produces for us, his own list of politicians and humorously rates their fitness to govern in terms of how well they can shoot (marksmanship):

Nelson Mandela — will always be number one sniper to be deployed in the most desperate of situations when one needs to get the job done. He can name his price.

Swedish Politicians — can be left alone as they will hit the target 50% of the time, adhere to safety regulations and spend the rest of the time in meetings discussing the merit of each and every shot fired. They are also very fond of special committees where some more discussing can be done and therefore worth their salaries.

Robert Mugabe — to be terminated with extreme prejudice as he could not hit any target and thus decided to blow up all the shooting ranges. He is still armed. Sulking and sitting in the middle of fuck-all, looking for a target. Name your price to cull this abhorrent viral strain.

Thabo Mbeki — can not be allowed close to any shooting range as he failed the entry exam for eight consecutive years. He is yet to hit a cow’s arse with a double-barrelled shotgun at five feet. And yet he earns almost R 2 million annually.

I think I am going to enjoy reading his future blog posts, and I invite Cape Town news readers to join me there. In fact, I hope Gerrie will deploy feedburner to manage his RSS feeds and also allow readers to subscribe to a daily email digest of them, which is my preferred method of RSS feed consumption these days.

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