Zuma, Afrikaners bond at braai

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Johannesburg - He calls it nyama, they call it meat.

This little difference did not stop Jacob Zuma and a few well-known Afrikaners to enjoy a good old barbecue in Houghton, Johannesburg.

"Meat shouldn't be braaied on a braai grid. It should lie there between the hot coals, fighting for its life," Zuma told his companions.

The former deputy president Zuma grabbed the braai tong to show Steve Hofmeyr, Leon Schuster, Kallie Kriel and Dr Dan Roodt how it's done.

Hofmeyr said: "Zuma is one of the few leaders with whom I would sit around a fire. He's an honest man and speaks like an Afrikaner - a straight forward person."

Zuma and the group of about ten Afrikaners enjoyed their braai until late at night, while 12 security guards kept a watchful eye.

Zuma admitted his Afrikaans was 'vrot' (pathetic): "But in 1963 I had to learn very quickly when the police arrested me and shouted the word '***ie' all the time. They hit me and I couldn't understand why. Only later I realised that they were looking for my identity card. I will never forget the word 'kaartjie' (card)."

"A lot of things have changed and it is now a real pleasure to sit around a table with Afrikaners," Zuma added.

Hofmeyr agreed: "We come from different backgrounds, and what's better than sitting around a braai and chatting about our differences."

The only thing that Schuster regretted was, that he did not bring his Mama Jack-mask along.

When someone asked Zuma whether Sean Else, one of the guests, should also write a song like De la Rey about Zuma, Zuma replied that he would feel very flattered if it every happened.

Else didn't fall for that, though: "I'm sure there are much better songwriters than me who've got the right background to write something about Zuma."

The braai was organised by Elzilda Becker, publisher of De Kat magazine, for the front page of the magazine's May edition.

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2089962,00.html
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Nice touch by both parties. :)
 
It was. Really cool. Imagine him as president, a Zulu in charge of a mostly Xhosa gov....hmmm
 
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Glad I wasnt there sitting with all those idiots,firstly cos none of them can sing and secondly none of them no how to govern a country.
 
Was there any hugging of babies?????

And for the life of me I cant figure out where this"bring me my machine gun"song comes from,I never thought the Zulu impis used these as weapons neither did the Boers or British,so help me here with it being a cultural song or historical for that matter.

As for the Afrikaaners wanting to sing about dead people,so be it,no skin of my back.
If Zulus also did the same thing,no skin either.But the machine gun thingy dont gel with me.
Anyways they probaly burnt the meat by the sounds of things......

And it was probaly cos STEVE was singing
 
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Surely it should be "He calls it nyama, they call it vleis"?

Although I guess, seeing it was in Beeld originally it probably got translated out.

sk33t: Zuma is Zulu, doesn't make him an impi. Your tribal generalisations are confusing you. (But you're right about the singing :) )
 
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Glad I wasnt there sitting with all those idiots,firstly cos none of them can sing and secondly none of them no how to govern a country.
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Can you do any of the above?

Or do you have another higher claim to fame.

SK33T for President?
 
The Boere and the Zulu's came along way to fight side by side for what this country has now.

What did the others do ? Nothing. Now they run the country into the ground.
 
What a load of unadulterated BS put together by a k@k magazine in an attempt to up distribution. Only nobbers who regularly read De K@k would believe the sincerity of the article or the comments by the participants
 
I thought, when clicking on the thread title, that I was going to read a joke. As it turned out, it was worse, it was a bad joke :p
 
Oh, the cynicism. Yes, to some degree they're probably doing this out of political expediency. However, examples like this may at least help foster racial harmony... if silly buggers like you lot let them.

At least be happy no-one's at anyone's throat.
 
What a nice selection of guests.. all the jokers around the same fire. BTW, I also think De Kat is the preferred magazine of all Afrikaans speaking Wannabe's. Rather Die Huisgenoot crowd then - at least they don't pretend to be something they will never be.As for myself- I think I might subscribe to Landbouweekblad.
 
De K@K is a never-been mag.
Just like the guests they invited.
Where was the biggest clown: Max the gorilla du preez?
 
It's kind of hard to please everybody. No wonder the politicians have resigned themselves to pleasing only themselves.
Whatever happened to reconciliation ?????
 
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