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Mondays can be a drag at the best of times.
Now imagine that the Gauteng Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) has called for your arrest, on the basis that the country’s train service, Prasa, has all but fallen apart, and the day becomes even bluer.
In the wake of calls for arrest, a normal adult politician would craft a statement and release it to the media via their social media channels, but Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula is neither normal nor adult.
Instead, the man who dubbed himself Mr Fix, with zero consideration for the thick, thick irony in play, took to Twitter to bang out a response that is best imagined being hurled from a playground’s sandpit.
Clearly, he didn’t enjoy last night’s kip and has woken up in a foul mood
The tirade began at around 11AM today with this tweet:
Karl Niehaus is a well known thug emplyed by Magashule at luthuli house.
— Minister of Transport |Mr Fix (@MbalulaFikile) October 12, 2020
Fikile, that’s Carl Niehaus – you should know as you’ve sparred with him before.
Niehaus is something of a Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) spokesperson, so Fikile is making this personal.
We’ll gloss over a few more tweets and get to these gems:
They organise tired self defence units and they call themselves MK with old gupta sponsored camaflouge uniform its even warn out.
— Minister of Transport |Mr Fix (@MbalulaFikile) October 12, 2020
Karl Niehaus faked the death of his own mother ,Faked death of his own mother ,faked death of his own mother today he is showing up with chicken audacity threatening everyone including the state.
— Minister of Transport |Mr Fix (@MbalulaFikile) October 12, 2020
Believe it or not, the transport minister is correct in that Niehaus did fake his mother’s death in order to try and wriggle out of a legal dispute.
What kind of a man does that? The kind of man that is a Jacob Zuma loyalist.
I guess we should include Carl’s response:
Minister @MbalulaFikile the day you are an @MYANC veteran of 42 years, who served 10 years as a political prisoner for my membership of the #ANC & #MK you can dare to talk to me in this tone. You’re not worthy to walk in the old shoes of those MK cadres that you insulted.
— Carl Niehaus (@niehaus_carl) October 12, 2020
On with Fikile’s meltdown we go:
Prasa was your milking cow,I have closed the taps that is my sin you used to do as wish with fake security companies. NINYILE
— Minister of Transport |Mr Fix (@MbalulaFikile) October 12, 2020
The roof will come down am not afraid of thugs Only God and Can Judge Me.
— Minister of Transport |Mr Fix (@MbalulaFikile) October 12, 2020
Its Anc Vs Thugs who are covered in a sheep skin.
— Minister of Transport |Mr Fix (@MbalulaFikile) October 12, 2020
He also deleted this in the midst of his barrage:
Mbaks deleted this tweet
. #mbalula #Anc pic.twitter.com/44TuuUutfa
— Azania North (@Tsonga_Dynast) October 12, 2020
How embarrassing.
What kind of a politician airs their political grievances with poorly written tweets for all to see?
For now, at least, it appears that Fikile’s toy-throwing is over, and he’s returned to retweeting tweets that focus on the building of roads and other such official business.
Another day, another reminder of the embarrassing state of the ruling party.
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