Gerhard’s Reviews > Unpresidented: A Comedy of Errors > Status Update

A Spur burger now is not all that different to a Spur burger fifteen or even twenty years ago. It's comforting to know that some things never change. (Except that now they sometimes come with a side order of racism and aggression.)

The clock is ticking on this one, Helen. I know you're probably busy getting a lot of work done, dealing with that whole colonial problem...

Another term? Congratulations. That must be some kind of record, surely? What is that now, seventeen? I heard that your wife says you're going to run for president as a corpse? Really? Well I'm not sure how that would work, but I like the sound of it. We should do lunch so I can pick your brains.

'It says here that you owe four hundred and thirty-nine thousand, three hundred and fifty-seven rands and sixty-seven cents. And you have exactly thirty days to pay it, or else they will repossess the property and turn it into a landfill site.'
'Refilwe, quick, call Ma Thuli, this is estate capture!' Muza yells.

We had a president in this country who went from a jail cell to the presidency before, and he was much loved. So why shouldn't we have a man who goes from the presidency to a jail cell, and then back to the presidency again?

Great book to start reading in South Africa on our national #DayofReconciliation.