Moonstruck Mr Mbalula

Dear Mr Mbalula 

Thank you for your tweets advising us that you had just landed, first in Ukraine, then 'in' the moon.  At least you went one better than the Americans. They only landed on the moon.

I don't know how we would have got through the day without that information. You are, after all, said to be our own Kim Kardashian of the twittersphere.

Had you really landed in Ukraine, you might have noticed, between state business, (translation: shopping, according to some), that their trains are running in the midst of a war. I imagine that your insightful response would have been: 'Hawu'.

Had you really landed 'in' the moon, you would probably have scoffed at its vaunted craters. Thanks to you and your party, we already have those on our roads in Mpumalanga and elsewhere.

Sir, what possessed you, a ninja and jedi of transportation management, to pen such twaddle?  I don't know if you see yourself as a jolly, good-old-boy, minister-of-the-people. No sir, that only comes with achievement. Ask man-of-the-people former president Zuma. You and he should have learned from the inimitable Cat Stevens: "It's hard to get by just upon a smile, girl".

Sir, one can but make some assumptions:

You tweeted after some copious tea consumption (like the revered judge who drove into a wall), or

As Dryden put  it: "Great wits are sure to madness near allied. And thin partitions do their bounds divide". Some would argue that you are innocent of the 'great wits' charge. You have spent time in the company of intellectual titans: Ms Duarte, queen of logic, Dr Ace, philosopher-king in waiting, that internationally renowned mathematician, geographer, and emperor-in-limbo, Mr Zuma. Others, too numerous to list. And as the Roman philosopher, Flatulus Maximus, wrote: "He who spends much time in the company of the wise shall, in time, be as wise".

Or, it may be that you were merely doing what so many South African politicians do with impunity: mooning us.

Yours in the love of travel, particularly flights of fancy.

Richard 

Tips for the blogger gratefully accepted 

Capitec Bank, South Africa  

1378565477

O Tichmann 

+27 833970723