Nine weeks before the elections‚ two developments point towards the arrival of silly season in politics
The invitation‚ in Afrikaans‚ says:"The people of the Western Cape are cordially invited to an exceptional and special service to celebrate the grand biblical principles of patience and peacefulness with Jimmy Manyi.
"Come and watch how opponents become friends‚ and how the nation gets healing‚ and how the Western Cape embraces a new future when people are united to make the people of the Western Cape truly free from oppression and the people of the Western Cape are truly empowered to be equal and have equal chances and be prosperous."
Then‚ enter Cornelius. The king of the"Sovereign State of Good Hope" has launched a bid in the high court in Cape Town to stop May’s national elections. Cornelius’s court papers say he wants"an urgent court order to cease and desist against" the president and government"that no election be held in the Sovereign State of Good Hope … which consists of the Western Cape‚ the Northern Cape and part of the Eastern Cape till as far as the Fish River".He added:"On the 16th July 2018 an eviction notice was handed to the office of the president at the parliament in Cape Town.
Ramaphosa had defied him‚ he said."I therefore plead the court to issue an urgent order to cease and desist for no elections in the Sovereign State of Good Hope."
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