Dear Fellow South Africans
I would have sprung to the defence of Mr Zuma had I not injured my right calf proving some of the points below.
We all know that dancing makes strenuous demands on body and mind. We've seen pictures of the battered feet of ballet dancers. The Mshini dance, though a thing of beauty, punishes the muscles and joints quite severely. Before you nitpicking legal types yell 'calls for speculation', I'll expand. My Defence Of Msholozi (DOM) team and I applied the Mythbusters technique. Testing the dance out on the steps of various courtrooms, we confirmed that the possibility of injury is very real.
Mr Zuma may also be suffering from the South African politician's scourge , atypical transient global amnesia,
described in great detail in https://thescuffle.
While ATGA is more a mental / psychological ailment than a physical one, we also know of the mystic linkages between body, mind, soul and other bits.
I hear you say: "What about the suspicious timing?" Oh, the heart of man is inordinately suspicious. Mr Zuma has been looking forward to his day in court for a very long time. The ever-growing excitement as that day approached, must have taken a toll on his battered frame. It could have exacerbated any of the above conditions.
Give the man a break.
Then again, a German lecturer made the profound observation that 'all of life is a break' (Das ganze Leben ist eine Pause).
Yours in the struggle for tolerance and understanding.
Richard
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