Some people were born to read the news (here’s looking at you, Riaan Cruywagen), but others are less impressive when the teleprompter is rolling.
Take for example UDM leader Bantu Holomisa, who was the latest politician to appear on ENCA’s evening episodes of “As It Happens”.
Ron Burgundy would famously read whatever was on the teleprompter, but Bantu just gets fed up with the thing.
Roll tape:
May has to be the longest month we’ve ever had Kusaz’ba Lit pic.twitter.com/5JHVB98fBT
— Portia Gumede (@portiagumedesa) May 17, 2018
Credit where credit is due, because Bantu took to Twitter soon afterwards to poke a little fun at himself:
As per usual, Twitter had no chill:
Still, Bantu was far superior than about 95% of the presenters on ANN7.
[source:timeslive]
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