Mandla Mandela: A true Zumanist

"Row over Mandela's new wife" - ST: 21/3/10-p.g 5

ST has reported that Mandla Mandela (Nelson Mandela's grandson) has taken a second wife who happens to be 19 years old. What the hell is he thinking! I hear myself screaming. This is a pure case of Zumanism. Mandla is a Zumanist. What else could we expect from him when his role model is Jacob Zuma? I am getting so sick and tied of hearing people use the "it's my culture" phrase as an excuse to advance their own moral code over that of a civilized people. Recently, Zuma made a fool of himself when he, at the World Economic Forum, told the audience that polygamy was his culture. If this was so, why is it that not all Zulu man in South Africa have more than one wife? I know so many men who are Zulu and very traditional in their ways but have only one wife. The dicision to have more than one wife is a personal decision and has nothing to do with culture but personal choice. If you want to have two wives or more don't use culture as an excuse, instead be a real man and tell the world that it is your fetish!

In the same light, Mandla's decision to take another wife is personal and has nothing to do with culture or let alone me or you. However, there is a concern that cannot be overlooked. If this type of behavior is allowed and encouraged we run the risk of raising a generation of men who care about nothing but the ability to feed their sexual drive, and I am afraid that this behavior runs contrary to our efforts in addressing the ills of HIV/AIDS. Mandla is a chief in rural area where HIV/AIDS threatenes to wipe out the community. Instead of leading an examplary life, he chooses to follow in the example of his role model, Zuma, hence becoming a Zumanist. Just how many will follow on this Zumanism phenomena is unknown. I suspect Julius Malema is suffering from a mild case of Zumanism...it has been reported that he changes women like he changes his underwears...at least he changes his underwears.

I only feel sorry for Mandela's first wife, Tando. That girl must find herself an excellent divorce attorney and take Mandla to the cleaners! Instead of taking a cue from his grandfather, who divorced his wife, Winnie Mandela, for Graca Mashel. I have always wondered how these two got together initially. Anyway, Mandla has clearly showed who he would rather look up to. I would also not look up to Nelson. Can you imagine being dumped at the height of a new era after you had dedicated all your life to a man who spent 27 years in prison and came out to dump you and take a foreign woman who never spent a minute in the trenches? I feel for that Madikizela woman! She reminds me of my own mother. The plight of black woman who stand by their husbands only to receive the worst handouts when victory finds their husbands. No wonder this unscrupulous obese boy sold his grandfather to the SABC...sis!

Anas Grimaud, the new wife, probably thinks her life will change significantly after acquiring the Mandela name. Well she is right. Her life will change. However, what she does not realize though is that in a few years she will suffer the same fate as her first counterpart...Mandla would have had a piece of her and looking to get into the pants of an 18 year old...the older they get, the younger they pick! Good luck ntombazana...ayeye!

My advise to this boy is to take out a gym contract and work out that fat before he falls victim to it...they say empires are destroyed from within...if he is not careful that fat will kill him sooner than the viagra would.

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