Until Julius Comes

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Richard Poplak. Until Julius Comes

FOREWORD

GEFÜHLSLEBEN

AN INTRODUCTION

PROLOGUE

15 DECEMBER 2013, JOHANNESBURG

ZILLESTAN

26 JANUARY 2013, ROSEBANK

THE FOUNTAIN

28 JANUARY 2014, JOHANNESBURG CBD

LOVE AND MARRIAGE

2 FEBRUARY 2014, JOHANNESBURG

HOUSE PROUD

4 FEBRUARY 2014, JOHANNESBURG CBD

THE METAPHORAI

12 FEBRUARY 2014, JOHANNESBURG CBD

CAPPED

9 JANUARY 2014, JOHANNESBURG

IDOL

6 FEBRUARY 2014, ALBERTON

BRING THE NOISE

17 FEBRUARY 2014, SOWETO

— I —

— II —

— III —

UNREAL

20 FEBRUARY 2014, ALEXANDRA

JUST LIKE IDI AMIN DID

27 FEBRUARY 2014, UMHLANGA

DESTINY’S CHILD

6 MARCH 2014, SANDTON

GET NASTY

30 MARCH 2014, RANDFONTEIN

MINISTER OF PORN

14 APRIL 2014, SANDTON

BRAAIING WITH BEE

10 MARCH 2014, BRYANSTON

VAMPIRE SQUID

12 MARCH 2014, PRETORIA

BURNING MEN

17 MARCH 2014, BEKKERSDAL

QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES?

19 MARCH 2014, HATFIELD

THERE IS NO SPOON

23 MARCH 2014, JOHANNESBURG

THE FLOOD

6 APRIL 2014, SASOLBURG

FLAPPY ZUMA

23 APRIL 2014, JOHANNESBURG

THE SPOILER

3 MAY 2014, KILLARNEY

THE END OF MADNESS

2 APRIL 2014, SANDTON

EXIT STAGE RIGHT

21 APRIL 2014, CAPE TOWN

LAST RITES

25 FEBRUARY 2014, SANDTON

FANTASIA

29 APRIL 2014, SANDTON

AYISAFANI PART D’OH

28 APRIL 2014, MAMELODI

BANNER DAY

30 APRIL 2014, AUCKLAND PARK

END GAME

4 MAY 2014, ATTERIDGEVILLE

BURNING MEN REDUX

5 MAY 2014, BEKKERSDAL

ODYSSEY

7 MAY 2014

WONDERKOP, NORTH WEST

BEKKERSDAL, GAUTENG

BP FILLING STATION, M2 TURN-OFF

EVERGREEN, GAUTENG

VIOLENCE/SILENCE

11 MAY 2014, ALEXANDRA

THE NAMED – A CONCLUSION

23 MAY 2014, JOHANNESBURG

AC­KNOWLEDGE­MENTS

SYNOPSIS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT DAILY MAVERICK

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ADVENTURES IN THE

POLITICAL JUNGLE

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In many respects, this non-delivery of a fatuous document filled with funny maths encapsulated the travails of a die-hard ANC supporter: always waiting for something; nothing comes. In this case, absent was a phalanx of blue T-shirts and blue banners, worn and carried by Helen Zille’s last remaining faithful.

One could almost imagine the DA legions walking up Johannesburg’s Sauer Street towards the brutalist concrete high rise that is the ANC’s lair, all set to exercise their constitutional right to freedom of speech. According to the DA press people, the march was not cancelled, but rescheduled. If it got nasty, as it was likely to, Zille and her henchfolk would be spirited back to Rosebank, while the rank and file duked it out in the streets. At least during the infamous Marriage, no DA member took an actual bottle to the head. Young people do dumb things, and they would do dumb things were the DA to arrive at Luthuli House.

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